Chỉ thị 10/2001/CT-TTg

DIRECTIVE

ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF VIETNAM’S POPULATION STRATEGY IN THE 2001-2010 PERIOD

On December 22, 2000 the Prime Minister ratified Vietnams Population Strategy for the 2001-2010 period. To effectively implement this Strategy, the Prime Minister instructs:

1. The National Committee for Population and Family Planning:

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Health and concerned ministries and branches in promptly elaborating and finalizing the policy on population in association with development; drafting the Population Ordinance and legal documents guiding the implementation thereof, which shall be submitted to the competent authorities for ratification; formulating a mechanism of coordination among branches and authorities in deploying the implementation of the Strategy; organizing the inspection, supervision and evaluation of the implementation of the Strategy.

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and concerned ministries and branches in working out and submitting to the Prime Minister for ratification the national target programs on population and family planning in the 2001-2005 and 2006-2010 periods.

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the concerned ministries and branches as well as localities in elaborating the annual financial plans for realization of the Strategy�s objectives and tasks.

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministries of: Justice; Public Security; Agriculture and Rural Development; Science, Technology and Environment, Planning and Investment, and Finance; the General Department of Statistics and relevant agencies in drafting as soon as possible a decree on organization, management and exploitation of the National Database System on Population for submission to the Government in the fourth quarter of 2001; continuing to perfect the National Database System on Population in the 2001-2005 period, which shall be submitted to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision in order to meet the requirements of evaluating the Strategy implementation results as well as of formulating the population policy.

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and concerned ministries and branches in working out a plan of scientific and technological research and application in the field of population, and directing the implementation thereof.

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in promoting international cooperation with a view to mobilizing sources to support the implementation of the Strategy.

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Government Commission for Organization and Personnel, the concerned ministries and branches as well as the Peoples Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities in perfecting and consolidating the system of organizations performing the family planning and population work, especially the grassroots organizations so as to organize the effective implementation of the Strategy.

2. The ministries, the ministerial-level agencies, the agencies attached to the Government and the Peoples Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities to thoroughly grasp the Partys policies and the States laws on population work; to enhance the direction and elaboration of programs and plans of action for effective implementation of this Strategy; to integrate the population factors into the process of elaborating the development policies and plans according to their vested competence and assigned responsibilities.

a/ The Ministry of Planning and Investment to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning and concerned ministries and branches in including the annual and five-year objectives and tasks on population in the national socio-economic development plan; combining activities of the population-related international cooperation programs with the Strategy-related activities along the direction of giving priority to investment in ethic minority, mountain and island areas as well as areas meeting with socio-economic difficulties or exceptional difficulties.

b/ The Finance Ministry to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning in ensuring funding sources necessary for deploying the implementation of the Strategy; and at the same time, guiding the concerned ministries, branches and localities to use such sources properly and efficiently.

c/ The Ministry of Culture and Information to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning in guiding the central and local mass media bodies to widely popularize and propagate the Strategys contents.

d/ The Radio Voice of Vietnam, the Vietnam Television and other central mass media bodies to regularly carry programs and columns to introduce the Strategys contents as well as the Partys and States population policies, thus contributing to raising each persons sense of responsibility to perform the population work.

e/ The Ministry of Education and Training to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning in mapping out and implementing plan on the diversification of population education forms in school and raising the quality thereof.

f/ The Ministry of Health to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning in elaborating and organizing the implementation of the program on caring for the maternal health/family planning under the programs of action for implementation of the Strategy; giving priority to poor women and policy beneficiaries as well as ethnic minority, mountain, island areas and areas meeting with socio-economic difficulties or exceptional difficulties.

g/ The Committee for Ethnic Minority and Mountain Areas to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning in elaborating and organizing the implementation of a plan on popularization and propagation of the Partys policies and the States laws on population work as well as the Population Strategy among the ethic minority people.

h/ The Peoples Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities to include the population objectives in the long-term and short-term socio-economic development plans of their respective localities; to promptly work out and organize the implementation of the plans of action for the 2001-2005 and 2006-2010 periods as well as the annual plans for deploying the implementation of the Strategy with objectives and solutions suitable to the local socio-economic characteristics; to launch a movement for the entire societys participation in the population work and organize the implementation thereof; to mobilize all resources in support of the implementation of the Strategy; to distribute and efficiently use resources, giving priority to investment in communes with high birth rates as well as ethnic minority, mountain, island and poor communes; and to regularly inspect the process of using funding sources for the implementation of the Strategy.

To direct the local mass media bodies to regularly carry propagation and education programs and columns with contents and forms suited to each region and each group of subjects; to focus the propagation and education activities on ethnic minority, mountain, island and poor communes as well as groups of subjects still limited in their knowledge and actions for the implementation of the population policy with a view to helping people realize and act properly for the question of population, maternal health/family planning.

3. The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and the Fronts member organizations as well as social organizations are requested to participate in deploying and implementing the Strategy; to coordinate with the National Committee for Population and Family Planning in directing, guiding activities of consultancy dialogues and mobilization for well implementing the population policy of the Party and the State.

4. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government, the presidents of the Peoples Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall, within the ambit of management responsibilities of their respective ministries, branches and localities, elaborate detailed plans and organize the implementation of this Directive; submit to the Prime Minister annual reports on the situation of implementation of the Strategy and at the same time send them to the National Committee for Population and Family Planning.

The National Committee for Population and Family Planning shall have to monitor, urge and inspect the implementation of this Directive and annually submit wrap-up reports to the Prime Minister.