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THE
PRIME MINISTER
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence Freedom Happiness
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No.
101/2007/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
July 6, 2007
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DECISION
APPROVING
THE NATIONAL TARGET EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM UP TO 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001
Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 23, 1994 Labor Code and the April 2, 2002 Law Amending and
Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Labor Code;
Pursuant to the National Assemblys Resolution No.
56/2006/QH11 of June 29, 2006, on the 2006-2010 five-year socio-economic
development plan;
Pursuant to the Governments Resolution No. 13/2005/NQ-CP of November 2, 2005,
on the October 2005 regular meeting;
At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the
national target employment program up to 2010 with the following principal
contents:
I. THE PROGRAMS OBJECTIVES
1. General objectives:
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2. Specific objectives up to
2010:
a/ To create jobs for 2-2.2
million people through the national target employment program during five years
from 2006 to 2010, specifically:
- To create jobs in the country
for 1.7-1.8 million people under projects on provision of loans for job
creation from the National Employment Fund;
- To create jobs overseas for
400,000-500,000 people through labor exporting enterprises and the Overseas
Employment Support Fund.
b/ To strengthen the capacity
of, and modernize, 30-40 job placement centers and to perfect the labor market
information system; to increase the number of people who receive job-related
advice and job placements to 4 million during the five years; to establish and
operate a labor market website by 2008;
c/ To provide professional training
for 75,000 central and local labor-employment cadres.
II. DURATION AND SCOPE OF
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM
1. Implementation
duration: up to 2010.
2. Scope of
implementation: nationwide.
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The program covers the following
major 3 projects and 2 activities:
1. A project on provision of
loans for job creation:
a/ Objective: To create jobs for
1.7-1.8 million people through the provision of loans from the National
Employment Fund.
b/ Contents:
- To provide loans with preferential
interest rates to unemployed and underemployed people, production and business
households, small- and medium-sized enterprises, farms and craft villages which
can create many new jobs, especially for unemployed young people;
- Annually, the National
Employment Fund for 64 provinces and centrally run cities, the Ministry of
Defense and socio-political organizations will receive additional allocations
from the central budget fund.
2. A project in support of
guest workers:
a/ Objective: To send 400,000-500,000
laborers to work abroad for given terms.
b/ Contents:
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- Supporting the offsetting of
loan interest-rate differences for policy beneficiaries who borrow capital for
going to work abroad;
- Supporting vocational
training, orientation training and improvement of the quality of laborers.
3. A project in support of
labor market development:
a/ Objective: To strengthen the
capacity of, and modernize, 30-40 job placement centers; to increase the number
of people who receive job-related advice and job placements to 4 million during
the five years; to establish and operate a labor market website by 2008.
b/ Contents:
- To strengthen the capacity of
job placement centers to meet the requirements of labor market development;
- To perfect the labor market
information system;
- Annually, to conduct a survey
of labor markets aiming to help assess the realization of the Programs
objectives and elaborate work plans under local socio-economic development
plans;
- To support the regular
organization of job-related transaction floors.
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a/ Objective: To evaluate and
monitor activities and projects within the framework of the national target
employment program.
b/ Contents:
To evaluate results of the
implementation of projects under the Program, annual results and results of the
implementation of the Program;
To monitor the implementation of
activities under the Program;
To study, propose, amend or
supplement mechanisms and policies to suit the Programs characteristics.
5. Enhancement of labor and
employment management capacity:
a/ Objective: To provide
professional guidance to 75,000 central and local labor-employment cadres.
b/ Contents: To conduct training
courses on methods of formulating and implementing the Program and new
documents; methods of formulating and managing the project on the provision of
loans from the National Employment Fund, and job placement skills for cadres of
provincial/municipal Services of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and
central agencies of socio-political organizations and social organizations, and
local labor-employment cadres.
IV. SOLUTION TO
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM
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a/ Policies:
- To further improve labor and
employment policies and programs on making laws on unemployment insurance,
labor export, job training, etc.;
- To formulate contents guiding
the management and implementation of projects and activities under the Program.
b/ Mechanisms:
- Capital use mechanism: To
distribute loans based on the job creation capacity through capital-borrowing
projects, giving priority to provinces which efficiently provide loans, where
many ethnic minority people live or where a large area of agricultural land is
converted into non-agricultural land;
- Coordination mechanism: To
enhance coordination between state management agencies and mass organizations
and localities in managing, and organizing the implementation of,
capital-borrowing projects; in making annual plans on the use of loans and
defining responsibilities of the Social Policy Bank in the management,
provision of loans, preservation and growth of the Fund;
- Decentralization mechanism: To
step up decentralization to local administrations at all levels, attaching
importance to decentralization to district-level administrations in organizing
and implementing projects on provision of loans to different groups of
borrowers;
- Integration mechanism: To step
up the integration of projects under the Program with projects under the
national target program on poverty reduction and other programs;
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanism:
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+ To improve the operation of
the Steering Committee for Implementation of the Program and raise the
responsibilities of local administrations at all levels.
2. Management and
implementation of the Program:
a/ The Steering Committee for
Implementation of the Program is composed of:
- The Minister of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs as its head;
- A vice minister of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs as a deputy head;
- Members including a vice
minister of Planning and Investment, a vice minister of Finance and a deputy
governor of the State Bank of Vietnam.
b/ The Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs shall act as the Programs standing body. The
Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall decide on the setting
up of the Steering Committee for Implementation of the Program and promulgate
the Activity Regulation of the Steering Committee.
3. Funding:
The total capital for the
Program is VND 5,985 billion (excluding overseas employment support capital),
including:
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- Local budgets: VND 560 billion
(of which VND 164 billion comes from localities loans for job creation
transferred from 2005);
- Community contributions: VND
500 billion;
- International contributions:
VND 30 billion.
The central budget fund to be
allocated to the Program is VND 2,295 billion, of which:
- The project on provision of
job creation loans: VND 2,000 billion;
- The project in support of
labor market development: VND 225 billion;
- Monitoring and evaluation: VND
40 billion;
- Enhancement of labor and
employment management capacity: VND 30 billion.
V. RESPONSIBILITIES OF
AGENCIES PARTICIPATING IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM
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a/ The Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs shall:
- Elaborate an annual plan on
implementation of the Program, identifying the tasks, objectives, funding needs,
and proposed implementation solutions, and send it to the Ministry of Planning
and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for synthesis and submission to the
Government;
- Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with relevant ministries and branches in,
elaborating mechanisms for implementation of the project on provision of job
creation loans, the project in support of guest workers, the project in support
of labor market development; or for monitoring and evaluation or enhancement of
the labor and employment management capacity;
- Coordinate with the Ministry
of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance in urging, inspecting
and supervising the implementation of the Program by ministries, branches,
provinces and centrally run cities; and report on the implementation of the
Program according to current regulations.
b/ The Ministry of Planning and
Investment shall:
- Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
Social Affairs in, guiding investment mechanisms applicable to projects under
the Program;
- Coordinate with the Ministry
of Finance, after reaching agreement with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids
and Social Affairs, in balancing and adopting annual plans for implementation
of the Program; coordinate in inspecting and supervising the implementation of
the Program;
c/ The Ministry of Finance
shall:
- Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
Social Affairs in, guiding financial management mechanisms for projects under
the Program; coordinate in inspecting and supervising the implementation of the
Program;
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d/ The State Bank of Vietnam
shall direct and inspect the implementation of preferential credit policies for
policy beneficiaries of the Social Policy Bank; coordinate in inspecting and
supervising the implementation of the Program;
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The Social Policy Bank shall manage capital sources and organize the timely
disbursement for employment support projects according to state mechanisms and
policies on loans of the National Employment Fund and its assigned competence;
e/ The Ministry of Defense shall
organize the implementation of the Program within the ambit of its functions
and tasks related to the Program.
2. Responsibilities of
provincial/municipal Peoples Committees and mass organizations:
a/ Provincial/municipal Peoples
Committees shall formulate, and organize the implementation of, their local
programs based on the national target employment program approved by the
Government and guiding documents of ministries and branches; periodically
report on the implementation of this Program to the Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs according to regulations.
b/ Socio-political organizations
and social organizations shall organize the implementation of the Program
within the ambit of their functions and tasks.
Article 2. This Decision
takes effect 15 days after its publication in CONG BAO.
Article 3. Ministers,
heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, and
presidents of provincial/municipal Peoples Committees shall implement this
Decision.
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