Implementation of the 20-year review of the organizational structure model of the Government of Vietnam

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Implementation of the 20-year review of the organizational structure model of the Government of Vietnam

On August 6, 2024, Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Steering Committee, chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee to review 20 years of implementing the organizational model of the Government of Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as the Steering Committee).

According to Notice 395/TB-VPCP dated August 21, 2024, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam principally concurred with the objectives, requirements, and scope in the draft Scheme. This is a difficult, sensitive, complex task but requires high determination to achieve the set goals. The draft Scheme must be realistic, feasible, focused, and clearly define the timeline for each task on a monthly and quarterly basis with a clear spirit on personnel, tasks, roadmap, time, responsibility, and outcomes for the Steering Committee to provide feedback promptly. At the same time, agree with the roadmap to report to the authorized levels; use it as a basis for the Ministries, sectors to implement within the assigned scope, authority, and responsibilities.

The overseas survey plan should focus on certain Ministries, central and local authorities that have political systems, economic characteristics, and development levels similar to or more advanced than Vietnam, focusing especially on Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea. Other countries may be considered for additional surveys given time and conditions.

The Ministry of Home Affairs of Vietnam will develop an Outline of the Report evaluating the implementation of functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministries, sectors based on the preliminary Outline of the Scheme to review 20 years of implementing the organizational model of the Government of Vietnam and send it to the Ministries, agencies under the Government of Vietnam to prepare the Report. The Outline of the Report should be detailed, with specific data, clear scope (20 years), subjects (functions, tasks, organizational structure of the Ministries, sectors), with the ideology that whatever is clear, established, and effectively implemented should be institutionalized into regulations for execution.

Ministers, Heads of Ministerial-Level Agencies, Heads of Agencies under the Government of Vietnam will directly instruct the process of building the Report evaluating the implementation of functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministries, sectors, ensuring quality and compliance with requirements; applying information technology to build the Report. Certain specialized Ministries, sectors will develop specialized Reports; consult experts, scientists in the field of organizational apparatus, but must be selective.

The process of developing the Scheme to review 20 years of implementing the organization model of the Government of Vietnam must be placed in the overall relationship of the political system, between the Government of Vietnam and the Central agencies, with the Ministries and central authorities, with local governments; adhere to the Platform, Resolutions of the Communist Party, Constitution, Law on Government Organization, Law on Local Government Organization, and other specialized Laws, focusing on:

- Review and evaluate decentralization and delegation associated with resource allocation; enhance execution capability, inspection, and supervision; reduce administrative procedures, minimize inconvenience for the citizens and decrease environments causing negativity (clarify achievements, existing issues, limitations, causes, lessons learned) and propose amendments to relevant laws;

- Propose views, objectives, solutions to perfect the organizational structure of the Government of Vietnam in the next term to streamline the organization, reduce internal focal points, operate effectively and efficiently, promote decentralization and delegation with the principle that the Government of Vietnam and central authorities focus on macro management, strategy formulation, planning, legislation, policy mechanisms, enhance capacity, administration, organization, implementation, and strengthen inspection and supervision;

- Review and evaluate the state management status of each Ministry, sector, agency on overlapping issues, intersection, and propose solutions based on the principle of not causing much disruption, clearly arranging functions and tasks, ensuring suitability, effectiveness by reducing levels, reducing intermediary stages; one organization, one person can undertake multiple jobs but one job should only be done by one organization, one person holds the main responsibility. Deeply evaluate the organization of multi-sector, multi-field management agencies, with attention to Ministries, agencies that manage multiple sectors and fields.

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