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THE
PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
277/2006/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
December 11, 2006
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DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM ON RURAL CLEAN WATER
AND ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION IN THE 2006-2010 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on
Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 104/2000/QD-TTg of August 25,
2000, approving the national strategy on rural clean water supply and
sanitation up to 2020;
At the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve
the national target program on rural clean water and environmental sanitation
in the 2006-2010 period (below referred to as the Program for short) with the
following principal contents:
I. VIEWPOINTS, GUIDING
PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM
1. Viewpoints
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b/ To step up socialization and development of a
rural clean water and environmental sanitation service market suitable to the
socio-economic development situation of the country.
c/ The State shall adopt mechanisms and policies
to support poor people, policy beneficiaries, ethnic minority areas, and rural
areas meeting with exceptional difficulties in clean water and environmental
sanitation.
2. Guiding principles
a/ To ensure the sustainable development of the
Program in association with the Party's and State's comprehensive strategy on
growth, hunger eradication and poverty alleviation; rural clean-water supply
and environmental sanitation facilities, once repaired, upgraded or built, must
ensure sustainable operation and efficiency.
b/ To prioritize the supply of water to densely
populated areas; to upgrade and expand existing facilities; to seek stable
water sources for areas stricken by exceptional difficulties or frequently
affected by drought, polluted areas, mountainous and coastal areas and islands.
c/ The Program shall be managed and administered
in accordance with law.
3. Implementation scope of the Program: rural
areas nationwide, with priority given in the immediate future to deep-lying,
remote, ethnic minority and coastal areas, areas frequently stricken by drought
or difficulties in water sources, and areas with polluted water sources.
II. THE PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES
To ensure that by the end of 2010, the following
fundamental objectives of the Program will be achieved:
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2. Environmental sanitation: 70% of rural
households will have hygienic latrines; 70% of farmers' households engaged in
animal husbandry will have hygienic pens.
All rural kindergartens, schools, health
stations, markets, communal working offices and public works will have access
to sufficient clean water and hygienic latrines.
To minimize environmental pollution in trade
villages, especially food and foodstuff processing villages.
III. MAJOR SOLUTIONS
To continue directing the implementation of the
Prime Minister's Decision No. 104/2000/QD-TTg of August 25, 2000, approving the
national strategy on rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation up
to 2020; particularly in the 2006-2010 period, the following major solutions
should be taken:
1. To step up socialization and development of a
rural clean water and environmental sanitation market.
a/ To promulgate mechanisms and policies to
facilitate and encourage all economic and social sectors to invest in the
development of rural clean water and environmental sanitation;
b/ To mobilize community participation, ensuring
publicity, democracy and transparency in the course of implementation of
projects;
c/ To enhance the legality and strictness of
sanctions against violations in the domain of rural clean water supply and
environmental sanitation.
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Management agencies, socio-economic
organizations and mass media agencies shall supply the communities with full,
accurate, prompt and regular information on health and environmental
sanitation, relevant policies, financial support systems, good models, science
and technology, and modes of managing and operating rural water supply and
environmental sanitation facilities.
The State encourages international
organizations, non-governmental organizations and social and economic sectors
to participate in conducting information, education and communication on rural
clean water and environmental sanitation.
3. To formulate and implement plannings and
plans
To regularly review, supplement and update in
time general and detailed plannings on rural clean-water supply and
environmental sanitation for use as a basis for the elaboration of five-year
and annual development plans. The Program's plans must be based on people's
demands and synthesized from grassroots, communal, district, provincial and
central plans to ensure feasibility.
To enhance decentralization and, at the same
time, apply supervision and monitoring mechanisms to ensure the effective
implementation of the Program.
4. Scientific and technological solutions
To diversify water supply technologies
appropriate to natural, economic and social conditions of each locality,
ensuring sustainable development; to rationally exploit and use water sources
with appropriate technologies; to raise the quality of facilities and water.
To select and develop different types of
hygienic latrines for use in households, schools and public places suitable to
use demands, practice and culture of local people. To intensify the application
of biogas technologies to the treatment of waste from animal husbandry.
To study and build on an experimental basis
demonstration models of treatment of waste from trade villages, especially food
and foodstuff processing villages.
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To invest for proper purposes in the construction
of facilities according to approved plannings and plans; to set up appropriate
organizations to manage, exploit and protect approved facilities.
Service charges must correctly and fully cover
reasonable expenses to help service-providing organizations and individuals
enjoy financial autonomy.
Service users shall pay for services they have
actually used and at prescribed charge rates.
6. To train and develop human resources
To increase training for cadres and technicians
engaged in water supply and environmental sanitation at all levels in order to
improve their professional qualifications and skills, first of all managerial
personnel and workers engaged in operating, repairing and maintaining clean
water supply and environmental sanitation facilities. To attach importance to
raising their practical skills to meet the requirements on the operation of
facilities; to prioritize training for grassroots maintenance and operation
workers and technicians.
7. To expand international cooperation
To step up international cooperation in order to
exchange experience, share information, transfer technologies, and mobilize
non-refundable aid and preferential credit.
To establish clear and flexible mechanisms for
coordination between government agencies and donors in order to create a
transparent, favorable and efficient environment for the implementation of the
Program; to establish partnership relations between Vietnam and donors in the
domain of rural clean-water supply and environmental sanitation,
8. To enhance supervision and monitoring
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To monitor and evaluate the results of
achievement of the Program's objectives, the quantity and quality of works, and
the quality of water, supervising the implementation process from survey and
construction to operation management of each project. To enhance community
involvement to ensure transparency, publicity and democracy in the course of
implementation.
9. Solutions on mechanisms of managing and
administering the Program
a/ To consolidate and rationally reorganize
rural clean-water supply and environmental sanitation organizations at all
levels, especially the grassroots, hamlet and village level;
b/ The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with
ministries, branches and localities in, directing rural clean-water supply and
environmental sanitation, clearly defining responsibilities and applying
mechanisms to ensure proper coordination between ministries, branches and
social organizations and the effective implementation of the Program from the
central to local level;
c/ Participating ministries and branches which
perform the state management of rural-clean water supply and environmental
sanitation task within their assigned domains shall concentrate on directing
the implementation, elaboration and promulgation of guiding documents; conduct
supervision and monitoring; train and develop human resources; develop
communication documents and launch propaganda campaigns on mass media;
disseminate experience lessons, etc.;
d/ At the local level: To concentrate on the
implementation, proposal of plans, management and supervision, training of
grassroots staff, community mobilization, implementation evaluation, reporting,
field survey, elaboration of communication documents suitable to localities,
organization of communication activities, and provision of technical guidance
at all local levels, especially the community level.
IV. PRIORITY PROJECTS OF THE
PROGRAM IN THE 2006-2010 PERIOD
1. Investment in the construction of rural water
supply and environmental sanitation facilities to ensure the achievement of the
Program's objectives on clean water supply and sanitation in rural communities,
schools, health stations and public works.
2. Study and perfection of mechanisms and
policies.
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4. Intensification of the information-education-communication
work.
5. Survey and review of the Program's plans and
monitoring and evaluation of the investment in the Program.
6. Promotion of human resource training and
development.
7. Promotion of international cooperation.
The list of specific tasks and projects is
included in the Appendix to this Decision.
V. FINANCIAL MECHANISMS AND
MOBILIZATION OF INVESTMENT RESOURCES
1. To bring into play internal strengths; the
State shall create legal grounds to encourage people, economic and social
sectors, domestic and foreign organizations to invest in rural clean water
supply and environmental sanitation.
To integrate the Program into other programs and
projects for attraction of additional investment sources.
2. In the 2006-2010 period, total investment
capital is estimated at around VND 22,600 billion, including VND 3,200 billion
from the central budget, VND 2,300 billion from local budgets, VND 3,400
billion from international aid, VND 8,100 billion from people's contributions,
and VND 5,600 billion from preferential credit.
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Investment capital sources: annual state budget
capital (central and local budgets, ODA capital), beneficiaries' contributions
and other lawful capital sources.
VI. IMPLEMENTATION DURATION
OF THE PROGRAM
The Program will be implemented from 2006 to the
end of 2010. Mid-term review and evaluation will be conducted to propose
solutions to the achievement of its objectives.
The results of implementation of this Program
will be reviewed and evaluated in 2010 to draw necessary lessons and experience
for the achievement of rural clean water and environmental sanitation
objectives by 2020.
Article 2.- Organization
of implementation
1. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with
ministries, branches and localities in:
a/ Directing and guiding the effective
implementation of the Program;
b/ Reviewing, amending and supplementing
mechanisms and policies to manage and direct the implementation of the Program;
study solutions for the socialization and establishment of a rural clean water
and environmental sanitation services market;
c/ Directing the identification of a specific
structure of investment capital sources from central and local budgets and
other lawful capital sources, including ODA capital, and proposing solutions
and policies to attract various capital sources for implementation of the
Program; and at the same time, expanding and promoting international
cooperation to seek assistance in terms of experience, science and technology,
finance, human resource training, information, and attract investment for the
rapid and sustainable implementation of the Program;
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e/ Reviewing and reporting annual implementation
results to the Prime Minister and proposing the solution of problems which
arise beyond their competence; drawing up annual plans and estimating annual
funds and sending them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the
Ministry of Finance for summing-up and submission to the Prime Minister for
consideration and decision;
f/ The Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall decide on the setting up of the Program Management Unit and
promulgate its operation regulation; the Ministries of: Planning and
Investment, Finance, Natural Resources and Environment, Science and Technology,
and Health, and concerned agencies shall appoint their officials to participate
in this Unit.
2. Provincial/municipal People's Committees
a/ To direct the effective implementation of the
Program in their localities under the direction and guidance of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development and concerned ministries and branches;
b/ To integrate capital sources of other
programs and projects in their localities for the effective implementation of
the Program;
c/ To mobilize various resources (local budgets,
community contributions and other lawful capital sources) for the construction
of rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation facilities; to direct
and organize or decentralize the formulation, evaluation and approval of the
Program's projects according to regulations;
d/ To periodically report the implementation
results of the Program to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
3. The Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment shall manage, exploit and use water sources in a sustainable
manner; assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development and concerned agencies in, basing
themselves on this Program's contents to arrange the order of priority, direct
and organize the treatment of environmental pollution in trade villages, rural
areas and severely polluted water sources.
4. The Ministry of Health shall guide and
publicize rural clean water and sanitation standards; provide medical
establishments with guidance on public and household sanitation in rural areas;
and enhance the state management of the quality of clean water used for daily
life and household and community sanitation in rural areas.
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6. Other ministries and branches and
socio-political organizations shall, according to their functions and tasks,
participate in the implementation of the Program, especially in
information-education-communication activities, mobilizing the community to
actively build, and make financial and credit contributions to the
construction, operation and management of rural clean water supply and
environmental sanitation facilities.
7. The Ministry of Planning and Investment and
the Ministry of Finance shall, based on the Program's contents and the
proposals of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, ministries,
branches and localities, arrange annual funds in accordance with the State
Budget Law for the implementation of the Program's annual plans.
Article 3.- This
Decision takes effect 15 days after its publication in "CONG BAO."
Article 4.- Ministers,
heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies,
socio-political organizations, and presidents of provincial/municipal People's
Committees shall implement this Decision.
LIST
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No.
Tasks
and projects
Managing
agencies
Major
coordinating agencies
Estimated
funds (VND billion)
Implementation
duration
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Tasks and projects on rural
water supply and environmental sanitation
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20,650
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An investment project on the supply
of daily-life water to around 15 million people and the construction of clean
water supply and sanitation facilities for around 2,800 communal People's
Committees and 2,470 rural markets
Provincial People's
Committees, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environment (MNRE), Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Planning and
Investment (MPI), Ministry of Finance (MOF)
9,040
2006-2010
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Provincial People's
Committees, MOH
MARD, MPI, MOF
4,610
2006-2010
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An investment project on the
supply of daily-life water to around 100 border-guard posts and population
clusters along border lines
Ministry of Defense
MARD, MPI, MOF
140
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4
An investment project on the construction
of clean water supply facilities and hygienic latrines for around 20,600
rural primary schools, nurseries and kindergartens
Provincial People's
Committees, Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)
MARD, MPI, MOF
60
2006-2010
5
Renovation and building of
around five million hygienic animal pens
Provincial People's
Committees, MARD
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6,800
2006-2010
II
Study and development of
mechanisms and policies
200
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MARD
MNRE, MOH, MPI, MOF, MOET,
Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Government Office
200
2006-2010
III
Application of rural water
supply and environmental sanitation technologies
300
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7
Creating and guiding
appropriate model designs of water supply and sanitation; selection and application
of water supply technologies for areas meeting with water source difficulties
MARD, Vietnam Science and
Technology Institute (VSTI)
MNRE, Ministry of Science and
Technology (MST), provincial People's Committees, universities
190
2006-2010
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Selection and application of
hygienic latrines and animal pens suitable to eco-zones
MOH, MARD
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50
2006-2010
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Study and application of water
treatment technologies for areas highly prone to pollution, especially to
arsenic
MARD
MNRE, Ministry of
Construction, MST, VSTI, research institutes, universities
60
2006-2010
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450
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Establishing, directing and
organizing information, education and communication on rural clean water and
environmental sanitation
MARD, Ministry of Culture and
Information (MCI), provincial People's Committees
MCI, MOH, MOET, Vietnam
Women's Union, Vietnam Peasants' Association, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth
Union, Vietnam Television, the Radio Voice of Vietnam, newspapers, journals,
etc.
450
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V
Investigation and evaluation,
and elaboration of plannings and plans
600
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Establishing a monitoring and
evaluation system; assessing the quality of clean water according to current
standards; assessing the rate of hygienic latrines according to the Health
Ministry standards
MARD, MOH, provincial People's
Committees
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250
2006-2008
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Reviewing and supplementing
the national planning on rural clean water supply and environmental
sanitation; plannings on eco-zones; provincial plannings; and formulating
district-level plannings on rural clean water supply and environmental
sanitation
MARD, provincial People's
Committees
MNRE, MOH
350
2006-2010
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300
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Training and developing human
resources at all levels for implementation of the national target program on
rural clean water and environmental sanitation in the direction of
socialization
MARD
MPI, MOF, donors,
universities, training centers
300
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VII
International cooperation in the
domain of rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation
100
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Formulating and organizing the
implementation of an international cooperation program in the domain of rural
clean water supply and environmental sanitation
MARD
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100
2006-2010
Total:
22,600