Which agency has the authority to decide on the monthly allowance for population collaborators in Vietnam? What are the conditions to become a population collaborator?
What are the conditions to become a population collaborator?
According to the provisions of Article 2 of Circular No. 02/2021/TT-BYT on the criteria for population collaborators as follows:
Criteria for population collaborators
Population collaborators are volunteers who do population work in the hamlet. Population collaborators must meet the following criteria:
1. Having an education level from lower secondary school graduation or higher. In difficult hamlets or with ethnic minority people who cannot choose people with sufficient education as above, people who have completed primary school should be selected; trained and trained on population according to professional contents promulgated by the Ministry of Health.
2. Living and working stably in the hamlet where population collaborators are in charge; voluntarily participating as population collaborators; having a sense of responsibility, enthusiastically participating in social activities, having the ability to mobilize the masses and is trusted by the community.
3. Preference will be given to those who are doing hamlet health work to participate as population collaborators.
4. Being healthy enough to perform the prescribed duties.
According to the above regulations, population collaborators are volunteers who do population work in the hamlet. To become a population collaborator, you must meet the following criteria:
- Have a high school diploma or higher. In difficult hamlets or with ethnic minority people who cannot choose people with sufficient education as above, people who have completed primary school should be selected; trained and trained on population according to professional contents promulgated by the Ministry of Health.
- Currently living and working stably in the hamlet where population collaborators are in charge; voluntarily participate as population collaborators; has a sense of responsibility, enthusiastically participates in social activities, has the ability to mobilize the masses and is trusted by the community.
- Preference will be given to those who are doing hamlet health work to participate as population collaborators.
- Being healthy enough to perform the prescribed tasks.
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Which agency has the authority to decide on the monthly allowance for population collaborators in Vietnam?
In Clause 2, Article 4 of Circular No. 02/2021/TT-BYT on the benefits of population collaborators as follows:
Benefits of population collaborators
1. Population collaborators are assigned to be in charge of work according to the hamlet area, depending on the characteristics and actual situation of the locality, but ensure that each hamlet has at least 01 population collaborator.
2. The monthly allowance for population collaborators shall be decided by the Provincial-level People's Council and guaranteed by the local budget according to regulations.
3. Each population collaborator is equipped with working tools, including: Communication bag, portable speaker, flashlight, raincoat and other tools suitable to local conditions and financial capacity.
4. Typical population collaborators who have made active and enthusiastic contributions to population work are encouraged, rewarded and honored; to participate in regional and inter-regional competitions, conferences and seminars to exchange working experiences.
Thus, the monthly allowance for population collaborators shall be decided by the Provincial-level People's Council and guaranteed by the local budget according to regulations.
In addition, typical population collaborators who have made active and enthusiastic contributions to population work are encouraged, rewarded and honored; to participate in regional and inter-regional competitions, conferences and seminars to exchange working experiences.
What are the duties of population collaborators in Vietnam?
Duties of population collaborators are specified in Article 3 of Circular No. 02/2021/TT-BYT as follows:
- Population collaborators are responsible for working with hamlet health workers and collaborators of other programs in the area to propagate and mobilize on population work, sanitation and prevention, and primary health care for the people in the area under management.
- Directly propagate, mobilize and advise on population for people in the area in charge.
- Provide condoms and oral contraceptives to each household according to regulations; carry out marketing, social marketing, socialization of reproductive health care products, family planning and population services according to regulations.
- Check and monitor the maintenance and implementation of population content of households in the management area.
- Implement the regime of initial recording, data collection, and making periodical and extraordinary reports on the population according to current regulations; providing data for commune health stations, making diagrams and charts, managing the number of households in terms of population in the management area.
- Preserve and use documents (books, report forms...) related to assigned tasks.
- Attend the monthly population collaborator's meeting organized by the commune health station to reflect on the situation and report the results of population activities in the assigned area.
- Attend training courses organized by competent authorities.
- Detect and propose to commune-level population monitoring staff and staff of commune-level Health Stations the issues that need to be done about population in the area under their management.
- Perform other population-related tasks assigned by the head of the commune health station or the chairperson of the commune-level People's Committee.
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