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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. 239/2006/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, October
24, 2006
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DECISION
APPROVING THE SCHEME ON ASSISTANCE FOR
DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE 2006-2010 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25,
2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the July 30, 1998 Ordinance on Disabled People;
At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs;
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the
Scheme on assistance for disabled people in the 2006-2010 period, with the
following principal contents:
1. Objectives
To improve the quality of life
for disabled people; to step by step create conditions for disabled people to
equally participate in social activities; and to build a social environment
with better and better care for disabled people.
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a/ At least 80% of provinces and
cities will have "self-reliant" organizations of disabled people;
b/ Around 70% of disabled women
will be provided with assistance in various forms;
c/ Around 70% of disabled people
will have access to medical services; around 3,000 disabled people will be
given orthopedic treatment and functional rehabilitation;
d/ Around 70% of disabled children
will participate in studying activities in various forms, 100% of disabled
children will enjoy exemption from or reduction of school fees in accordance
with state regulations.
e/ Around 80,000 disabled people
will be provided with job training and appropriate jobs in job-training,
production, business and service establishments of all economic sectors
nationwide;
f/ 100% of newly built and
designed public construction and traffic works will conform to current
regulations; 20%-30% of existing works will be renovated in order to become
accessible for disabled people;
g/ The rate of disabled people
getting access to the Internet and related services will be at least equal to
one-fourth of the national average rate;
h/ 100% of disabled people, if
being in need and eligible, will be provided with loans from national target
programs on poverty reduction and employment;
i/ 22% of disabled people will
participate in sport training.
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a/ Raising awareness about
disability and disabled people;
b/ Surveying the situation and
practical conditions of disabled people nationwide, and, on that basis,
amending or supplementing legal documents, mechanisms and policies on
assistance to disabled people or formulating new ones;
c/ Establishing criteria on
classification and grading of Vietnamese disabled people according to their
functional operation and disability;
d/ Supporting and facilitating
the establishment of "self-reliant" organizations of disabled people
and associations of their parents and families;
e/ Providing assistance to
disabled women;
f/ Conducting community-based
identification, interference and function rehabilitation for disabled people,
especially children;
g/ Providing educational
assistance;
h/ Providing job training and
employment assistance;
i/ Providing assistance
regarding access to and use of public construction and traffic works;
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k/ Creating conditions for
disabled people to get access to social benefit programs and national target
programs on poverty reduction;
l/ Conducting monitoring,
inspection, supervision and evaluation.
4. Implementation duration: From
2006 to 2010.
5. Implementation solutions
a/ Mobilizing resources for the
implementation of the Scheme:
To achieve the Scheme's
objectives, a mechanism of mobilizing various resources shall be implemented,
including:
- The central budget;
- Local budgets;
- Funds of other policies and
programs;
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b/ Promoting the participation
of people, especially disabled people:
- To inform people of the state
guidelines and policies towards disabled people and their families;
- To encourage people,
especially disabled people, to participate in all activities under the Scheme.
c/ Enhancing the assignment and
decentralization of management work:
- At the central level: To
formulate mechanisms, policies, national targets and plans; allocate resources
and organize the supervision and evaluation of the implementation of the
Scheme;
- At the provincial and district
levels: To make plans on assistance for local disabled people; mobilize
additional resources and take initiative in allocating these resources to
communes; guide and supervise the implementation by communes; make surveys,
statistics and reports on the number of disabled people to the central
authorities;
- At the commune level: To
identify the number of disabled people, mobilize local resources, implement
policies in the localities and conduct self-monitoring and evaluation.
d/ Developing, and raising the
quality of, personnel engaged in the provision of assistance to disabled
people:
- To strengthen the contingent
of personnel engaged in the provision of assistance to disabled people at all
levels;
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e/ Studying and revising
mechanisms and policies on assistance for disabled people:
- To step by step renovate the
mode of payment for services provided to disabled people in the direction that
expenses for medical, educational and job-training services provided to disabled
people will be paid directly by the State on behalf of disabled people to
service-providing establishments, both public and non-public, in order to raise
the quality of and ensure equal access to these services;
- To adjust the support levels
regarding equipment and devices for orthopedic treatment or functional
rehabilitation;
- To adjust the support levels
regarding job-training and education;
- To revise criteria so as to
increase the number of disabled people eligible for allowances in line with the
socio-economic development process.
f/ Enhancing international
cooperation on assistance for disabled people:
- To fully implement the
Government's commitments within the Biwako Millennium Framework;
- To maintain and expand
comprehensive relations with organizations in the region and the world in
activities of providing assistance to disabled people.
6. Funds: Funds for the
implementation of the Scheme are included in the annual state budget estimates
in accordance with current state budget decentralization and mobilized from
domestic as well as foreign organizations and individuals in accordance with
law.
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a/ The Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs shall:
- Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned agencies and localities in,
organizing the implementation of the Scheme and making periodical reports to
the Prime Minister;
- Continue scrutinizing and
evaluating the results of implementation of the Ordinance on Disabled People
and relevant legal documents; assume the prime responsibility for, and
coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in, studying and proposing
amendments or supplements to, or proposing competent agencies to amend or
supplement, policies on assistance for disabled people;
- Guide functional agencies of
provinces and centrally run cities to set up and use the fund for employment of
disabled people.
- Accelerate job-training and
employment activities for disabled people by conducting job learning and
teaching.
b/ The Ministry of Health shall:
- Formulate and implement a plan
on healthcare for disabled people, focusing on the formulation of programs on
community-based identification, interference and functional rehabilitation for
disabled people;
- Guide the implementation of
policies on exemption from and reduction of hospital fees for poor disabled
people;
- Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training
in, studying the incorporation of the program on training of functional
rehabilitation personnel into the teaching programs of universities, colleges,
vocational schools and job-training establishments;
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c/ The Ministry of Education and
Training shall:
- Formulate and implement a plan
of action on education for handicapped/disabled children in the 2006-2010
period and afterwards in the direction of integration into and reliance on the
community;
- Unify the use of language and
signs for disabled people nationwide.
d/ The Ministry of Culture and
Information shall:
- Direct the acceleration of
propagation work so as to raise awareness about disability and disabled people
and widely disseminate measures to prevent disability and create conditions for
disabled people to participate in, appropriate cultural activities and
integrate into the community;
- Direct the mass media to
create specialized columns and programs on assistance for disabled people.
e/ The Committee for Physical
Training and Sports shall:
- Formulate programs and
exercises to guide disabled people to practice physical training in the
community;
- Direct the Vietnam Sports
Association for the Disabled to launch physical training and sport movements;
propose appropriate forms and levels of reward for disabled people who record
achievements in physical training and sport competition;
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f/ The Ministry of Post and
Telematics shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the
Ministry of Science and Technology in, elaborating regulations to encourage the
research into, production and application of appropriate products to support
disabled people in getting access to and using telecommunications services and
information technology.
g/ The Ministry of Construction
shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned
ministries and branches in, directing the construction of new works and
upgrading of existing works according to Regulation No. QCXDVN 01: 2002 on
public work construction and Vietnam construction standards No. TCXD 246: 2002,
TCXDVN 265:2002 and TCXDVN 266: 2002; scrutinize and amend the aforesaid
regulations or promulgate new construction standards to guarantee disabled
people's access to and use of newly built works.
h/ The Ministry of Transport
shall:
- Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in,
directing the design and building of new works and the upgrading and renovation
of existing ones in accordance with promulgated regulations so that disabled
people can use them;
- Assume the prime responsibility
for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Industry in, renovating, manufacturing
and putting into use vehicles that are accessible and safe for disabled people.
i/ The Ministry of Finance and
the Ministry of Planning and Investment shall:
- Take charge of arranging
budgets for ministries, branches and localities to organize the implementation
of the Scheme in accordance with current state budget decentralization;
- The Ministry of Finance shall
assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor,
War Invalids and Social Affairs in, elaborating documents guiding the use of
funds for the implementation of the Scheme.
j/ The Ministry of Home Affairs
shall study, amend and supplement mechanisms and policies to create favorable
conditions for the establishment and effective operation of
"self-reliant" organizations of disabled people and associations of
their families and parents.
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l/ Provincial/municipal People's
Committees shall:
- Direct functional agencies to
identify the number of disabled people and classify and grade disabled people
according to the criteria and guidance of the Ministry of Health and concerned
ministries and branches;
- Elaborate plans and organize
the implementation of policies and regimes of social allowances and assistance
for disabled people in terms of healthcare, education, job-training, employment
and cultural and sport activities.
m/ The Vietnam Television, the
Radio Voice of Vietnam and the Vietnam News Agency shall develop specialized
columns and programs on assistance for disabled people.
n/ - The Vietnam Fatherland
Front's Central Committee, mass organizations, socio-political organizations
and social organizations shall actively participate in the implementation of
this Scheme within the scope of their functions and tasks.
- The Vietnam Women's Union
shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned
agencies in, directing the provision of assistance to disabled women.
o/ In the process of assessment,
approval and pre-acceptance test of investment projects, ministries,
ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies and
provincial/municipal People's Committees shall direct functional agencies to
strictly comply with regulations and standards so that disabled people can get
access to and benefit from socio-economic development policies and use public
works.
Article 2.- This Decision takes
effect 15 days after its publication in "CONG BAO."
Article 3.- Ministers, heads of
ministerial-level and government-attached agencies, and presidents of
provincial/municipal People's Committees shall implement this Decision.
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