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THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND INVESTMENT
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
03/1999/TTLT-BKH-BNN
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Hanoi, October 6, 1999
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JOINT CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE EXECUTION OF THE NATIONAL TARGET
PROGRAM FOR RURAL CLEAN WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE
(Under the Prime Minister’s Decision
No.237/1998/QD-TTg)
Pursuant
to the Prime Minister’s Decision No.237/1998/QD-TTg of December 3, 1998
ratifying the national target program for rural clean water and environmental
hygiene; Decision No.531/TTg of August 8, 1996 on the management of national
programs; and Decision No.05/1998/QD-TTg of January 14, 1998 on the management
of national target programs;
With a view to well executing the national target program for rural clean water
and environmental hygiene (RCWEH), the Ministry of Planning and Investment and
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hereby jointly guide a number
of points as follows:
I. THE
PROGRAM’S OBJECTIVES:
1. By the year 2000: To raise the rate of clean
water users to about 45%; and to improve the environmental hygiene, with
priority being given to border areas, islands, areas inhabited by ethnic
minority people and other rural areas meeting with difficulties.
2. By the year 2005: About 80% of the rural
population to be supplied with clean water; 50% of households to have hygienic
latrines; waste from 30% of the animal farms and stables and 10% of craft
villages to be treated. Most schools, hospitals, medical stations, markets and
other public works in rural areas to be supplied with clean water and
surrounded by clean environment, and most of the rural people to properly keep
their personal hygiene.
3. To contribute to the combat against the dry-up
and pollution of water sources as well as to the protection of the quality
thereof.
II.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES:
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- The People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities shall manage and mobilize various resources, including
revenues from agricultural land use tax which are left to their localities,
resources from international organizations, from integrated socio-economic
development programs, and resources mobilized from organizations, individuals
and various population strata in their respective localities, in order to
achieve the program’s objectives; and incorporate the rural clean water supply
and environmental hygiene objectives and solutions into the general objectives
set in the annual socio-economic development plans of their localities.
- The investment and construction of projects
must be carried out in a transparent and democratic manner, with the
beneficiaries’ discussion and participation in various processes, from the
planning, designing and construction to management, operation and maintenance
of such projects, ensuring the sustainable operation thereof.
III. THE
PROGRAM’S SCOPE:
To ensure that the clean water supply and
environmental hygiene improvement in rural areas are carried out according to
the objectives already ratified by the Government, the program shall cover:
- Management of and investment in the
construction of clean water supply projects in service of the rural population
community;
- Management of and investment in the
construction of projects in combination with the treatment of human and animal
wastes, such as the construction of hygienic latrines and animal farms and
stables, and treatment of wastes from rural craft villages;
- Contribution to the protection of water
sources, the combat against dry-up and pollution thereof in the course of
exploitation and use, ensuring the protection of environmental hygiene and
scenes;
The program shall be executed in rural areas,
including small district townships with a population of less than 30,000 each
(according to the national strategy for rural water supply and hygiene).
IV.
INVESTMENT CONTENTS:
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a/ Investment capital sources for the program
include:
- Budgetary capital: from the central-level
budget, local budgets, and from other target programs integrated with this
program in the localities;
- International capital: aid from various
international organizations to the program according to the already concluded
agreements and from non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
- Credit capital: lent by the State with
preferential interest rates, for investment in the construction of water supply
and sanitation projects;
- Capital mobilized from the people: People’s
contributions shall be mobilized at the level prescribed in Joint Circular
No.103/1999/TTLT/BTC-NN & PTNT of August 21, 1999 of the Ministry of
Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as the
capital contributed to and invested in the program by organizations and
individuals;
- Capital invested by the people by themselves.
b/ Use of the capital sources:
b.1. Budgetary capital (central-level and local
budgets and international aids), which shall be used mainly for:
- Elaboration of the planning on rural clean
water supply and environmental hygiene;
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- Training in order to raise the capacity of
officials taking part in the national target program for rural clean water and
environmental hygiene and people who wish to be trained;
- Technological research, application and/or
transfer, supply of new materials and equipment for the rural clean water
supply and environmental hygiene;
- Formulation of mechanisms and policies for the
execution of the program;
- Support of funds for the building of pilot
models;
- Supply of reciprocal capital matching
international aids;
- Support of investment funds for the
construction of daily-life water supply and environmental sanitation projects
in border areas, islands, areas inhabited by ethnic minority people and other
rural areas meeting with difficulties.
b.2. The people’s capital and credit loans:
shall be used mainly for the construction of projects in various forms, below:
- Contribution of a part of fund to the
investment in the construction of water supply and sanitation projects, with
support capital from the State and international organizations;
- Investment in the construction of projects for
commercial operation with charges for water supply and environmental sanitation
services in rural areas;
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- Other investment forms.
2. Investment projects: including centralized
water supply projects and scattered water supply projects, environmental
sanitation projects on the village, hamlet, commune or inter-commune scale, and
other clean water and rural environment projects.
3. Project investors: Depending on the scale and
characteristics of each project, the provincial People’s Committee, ministry or
branch taking part in the program shall decide a commune or district People’s
Committee or a specialized agency to act as the project investor.
4. Project elaboration, evaluation and approval:
The elaboration and approval of investment
projects shall comply with the current regulations on investment and
construction management;
Investment projects, after being approved, shall
be submitted by the provincial program management boards (or the steering
boards) to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (the Management
Board of the National Target Program for Rural Clean Water and Environmental
Hygiene) for being synthesized and serving as basis for the elaboration of
annual investment plans;
V.
INVESTMENT MECHANISM:
1. The investment and construction must be
carried out according to projects, in which:
a/ For projects in communes meeting with great
difficulties, they shall comply with Joint Circular
No.416/1999/TTLT/BKH-UBDTMN-TC-XD of April 29, 1999 on management of investment
in and construction of infrastructure projects in mountainous, remote and
deep-lying communes meeting with great difficulties.
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2. The level(s) of the State’s investment
capital in support of projects shall comply with Joint Circular
No.103/1999/TTLT/BTC-NN and PTNT of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development guiding the management, allocation and
settlement of funds for the National Program on Rural Clean Water and
Environmental Hygiene.
VI.
PLANNING WORK
1. Elaboration and synthesization of plans:
a/ The investment shall be made on the basis of
projects already approved by the competent authorities;
b/ Annually, under the guidance of the Ministry
of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities (hereafter referred to as the provinces for short), the
ministers and the heads of the branches taking part in the program shall have
to evaluate the execution of the reporting year’s plan, and propose the plan
year’s demand to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the
Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance.
c/ Basing itself on the program’s objectives,
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall synthesize and propose
the program’s objectives, tasks and investment capital demand in the plan year,
including the State’s capital source (development investment capital,
non-business capital, credit capital and international aids), capital
contributed by the people and capital mobilized from organizations and
individuals, to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of
Finance (together with the table for distribution of investment capital, and
assignment of the program’s tasks and objectives to the participating
provinces, ministries and branches).
2. Plan assignment:
a/ The Prime Minister shall allocate to the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the People’s Committees of
the participating provinces and branches the program’s total State capital in
the plan year (budgetary capital, credit capital and international
organizations’ aids).
b/ The Prime Minister shall authorize the
Minister of Planning and Investment to assign annual plans to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development, the provincial People’s Committees and the
ministries and branches taking part in the program in terms of objectives,
tasks, investment capital structure and list of projects (with capital
supported by the State budget), and at the same time notify the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development of the program’s general plans which shall
serve as basis for direction.
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d/ The presidents of the provincial People’s
Committees, the heads of the ministries and branches that participate in the
program, shall assign each project’s detailed criteria to the execution units
with the following contents:
- Project list, objectives and tasks of each
project.
- Capital source for execution: The total
investment capital and the investment capital structure for the program’s
execution (the State budget capital, credit capital, international aids,
capital mobilized from organizations and individuals, and capital contributed
by the people).
VII.
IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
- Basing themselves on this Circular, the
presidents of the provincial People’s Committees shall formulate mechanisms and
policies suitable to the characteristics and circumstances of their respective
localities, in order to fully mobilize all resources for the achievement of the
program’s objectives.
- The branches and levels, within their
respective functions, shall direct, inspect, supervise and urge the execution
of the program in this Circular’s spirit.
- This Circular takes effect after its signing.
Any irrationalities arising in the course of implementation shall be reported
to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of
Planning and Investment for study and appropriate supplements.
FOR THE MINISTER
OF PLANNING AND INVESTMENT
VICE MINISTER
Nguyen Xuan Thao
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