Integrated research of 3 National Target Programs

The integration of the three national target programs has the advantage of jointly implementing the goals of agriculture, farmers, and rural areas to develop ecological agriculture, modern rural areas, and civilized farmers.

Meeting scene.

On the afternoon of October 15, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh and Deputy Prime Ministers Tran Hong Ha and Mai Van Chinh co-chaired a meeting with leaders of ministries, branches and agencies on the study of merging three national target programs: new rural construction, sustainable poverty reduction, and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

A representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment said that implementing the Prime Minister's direction, the Ministry has reported on the proposed investment policy to build the National Target Program on New Rural Development and Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2026-2035 period on the basis of integrating the National Target Program on New Rural Development and the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction.

The Prime Minister has decided to establish a State Appraisal Council to report on the proposed investment policy for the program. The Ministry of Finance is taking steps according to the procedure. The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment is completing the process according to the Prime Minister's direction.

The name of the Program is the National Target Program on New Rural Development and Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the period 2026-2035. The beneficiaries of the Program include poor households, near-poor households, newly escaped-poverty households, people, residential communities, cooperatives, cooperative groups, enterprises and other relevant organizations nationwide, with priority given to rural areas and poor communes.

The program will be implemented nationwide, in 3,321 commune-level administrative units, concentrated in rural areas, especially poor communes. The implementation period is 10 years, from 2026 to 2035, divided into 2 phases: 2026-2030 and 2031-2035.

The program is designed into 10 groups of component contents with 60 specific contents. The specific implementation of the contents is carried out by the sector management ministries according to the national target programs and programs approved by competent authorities. The central government allocates total resources to localities, and localities are fully responsible for implementation.

Regarding the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development for Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period, Deputy Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions Y Vinh Tor said that localities all assessed that there were positive changes in the implementation of the program in the 2021-2025 period, and at the same time agreed to propose implementing phase 2 (2026-2030).

After reviewing, the Government Office found that the beneficiaries of the 3 Programs are mountainous communes and poor ethnic minority areas.

In terms of location, many mountainous ethnic minority communes are both rural and poor communes; infrastructure investment, livelihood support, and vocational training items overlap in content (in which the New Rural Program invests in basic infrastructure; the Sustainable Poverty Reduction Program supports employment, livelihoods, and vocational training; the Socio-Economic Development Program for Mountainous Ethnic Minority Areas invests in essential infrastructure and livelihoods).

Therefore, the independent implementation of the 3 Programs in the past time encountered some difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process such as: Resources were dispersed, slow disbursement of public investment capital, localities (commune level) received many investment capital sources for infrastructure, causing difficulties in planning, reporting and mobilizing counterpart capital, causing overlap in management and supervision, making it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the Programs, reducing investment efficiency, and not taking advantage of the complementarity between the Programs.

At the meeting, opinions from ministries, branches and agencies of the National Assembly showed that the integration of the 3 National Target Programs has advantages such as jointly implementing the goals of Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW of the Central Executive Committee on agriculture, farmers and rural areas until 2030, with a vision to 2045 to meet the needs of developing ecological agriculture, modern rural areas and civilized farmers. All 3 Programs have content on improving infrastructure, economic development and social security.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh speaks.

Concluding the meeting, emphasizing that the meeting agreed with the proposal to integrate 3 programs into 1 program, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh stated that although there are difficulties in integration, the advantages are huge, and the difficulties have been identified and clearly assessed to have remedial measures.

Preparations and proposals for mergers and integrations must be thoroughly, elaborately, and quickly prepared, but must ensure quality to be submitted to superiors for consideration and decision.

The Permanent Deputy Prime Minister stated that in the process of researching and proposing the merger, there must be a thorough review of the contents of all three programs in particular and other target programs being developed (culture, education, health); in the context of administrative boundaries and legal status of government levels having changed compared to before; there must be strong decentralization, delegation of power, and division of authority.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the implementation of the three programs has achieved very good and positive results. However, it is necessary to continue implementing the second phase of the three programs.

Regarding the integration principle, the First Deputy Prime Minister requested to maintain all goals, objects, and policies approved by the National Assembly for all three programs, extending to 2035; only addressing overlapping issues between the three programs.

The new program does not need to be rebuilt or re-approved from scratch, but has two components. The steering agencies of the three programs are the Government and participating ministries; the Ministry of Finance is the general focal point./.

According to VTV

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