Scheme to promote the role of the Lawyers' Association in law popularization and education in the period 2024-2030 in Vietnam

Scheme to promote the role of the Lawyers' Association in law popularization and education in the period 2024-2030 in Vietnam (Internet image)

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Scheme to promote the role of the Lawyers' Association in law popularization and education in the period 2024-2030 in Vietnam

On January 30, 2024, the Prime Minister issued Decision 129/QD-TTg approving the Scheme "Promoting the Role of Lawyers' Associations at all levels in law popularization and education in the period 2024–2030.".

The main tasks and solutions of the Scheme to promote the role of the Lawyers' Association in law popularization and education in the 2024-2030 period include:

(1) Raise awareness of party committees and authorities at all levels about the role and promote the role of Lawyers' Associations at all levels in the work of law popularization and education. Strengthen direction and assign tasks of law popularization and education to all levels of the Association.

- Presiding agency: Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and member organizations of the Front, People's Committees of provinces, and centrally run cities.

- Coordinating agencies: press and media agencies, other relevant agencies, and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(2) Promote the role of members of the Law Popularization and Education Coordination Council of the Lawyers' Association at all levels in leading and directing the law popularization and education work at all levels of the Lawyers' Association. Develop a specific work program with clear content and goals to promote the combined strength of units and levels within the Association.

- Presiding agency: Central Law Popularization and Education Coordinating Council; Law Popularization and Education Coordination Council at the provincial level; Law Popularization and Education Coordination Council at the district level.

- Coordinating agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(3) Strengthen the organization, apparatus, and human resources for law popularization and education of the Lawyers' Association at all levels.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and Bar Associations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(4) Enhance the capacity of Lawyers' Associations at all levels to participate in implementing law popularization and education

* Develop and update a set of framework documents on skills and professional training for reporters, propagandists, and people working in law popularization and education at all levels of the Law Society.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: District and commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

* Periodically every 06 months or one year, organize professional training, law popularization and education skills, and newly issued legal documents for reporters, propagandists, and people working in law popularization and education at all levels.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: Every year, from 2024 to 2030.

* Regularly update knowledge and provide legal information to reporters, propagandists, and people working in law popularization and education at all levels of the Association.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: Every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(5) Develop professional and effective models and methods to attract lawyers and social resources to participate in law popularization and education. Review and re-evaluate the model of Community Legal Centers in communes, wards, and towns of the Lawyers' Association; continue to replicate effective models; on that basis, organize a review, standardize the model, and replicate it throughout the country.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: Every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(6) Based on the annual and periodic orientation of the law popularization and education work of state agencies, the Lawyers' Association at all levels organizes law popularization and education for officials, members, and the people. Every year, all levels of the Association and its members participate in law popularization and education, bringing the law to life and mobilizing people to obey the law; Commune-level Bar Association organizations participate in building communes, wards, and towns to meet legal access standards.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(7) Promote socialization and mobilize social resources to join the Lawyers' Association at all levels in implementing law popularization and education.

* Mobilize organizations, businesses, and individuals to participate in supporting resources for the team of reporters, propagandists, and other law popularization and education workers of the Lawyers' Association to carry out law popularization and education for the People.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

* Mobilize and attract social resources, especially jurists and Lawyers' Associations at all levels; mobilize and attract lawyers, law-practicing organizations, arbitration organizations, arbitrators, notaries, and other legal profession organizations and individuals to participate in law popularization and education.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: Every year, from 2024 to 2030.

* Develop and promulgate regulations on the obligations of members of the Lawyers' Association to participate in law popularization and education.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: District and commune-level Lawyers' Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: Every year, from 2024 to 2030.

* Build movements of lawyers to participate in law popularization and education on the occasion of national, local, agency, unit, and Association events; take that as a criterion for evaluating emulation, commendation, awarding medals, etc.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(8) Digital transformation in law popularization and education through promoting the application of information technology for each stage of law popularization and education work.

* Develop software to manage, monitor, and evaluate the quality of activities of reporters, propagandists, and people working in law popularization and education at all levels of the Association.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, completed in 2025.

* Build and effectively operate the policy and law development section on the comprehensive website of the Vietnam Lawyers Association in order to improve the effectiveness of participation in policy and law development at all levels of the Association and strengthen communication of policies that have a great impact on society in the process of developing legal documents.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, completed in 2025.

* Build and effectively operate the law popularization and education section, a free legal advice section for the People on the comprehensive website of the Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, completed in 2025.

(9) Innovate and diversify content and methods of implementing law popularization and education. Promote the effectiveness of legal information channels of the Lawyers' Association at all levels, such as: magazines, legal newsletters, legal consulting centers, etc., to contribute to supporting people's access to the law, especially special and disadvantaged groups.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(10) Coordinate and participate in the effective implementation of the Scheme "Organizing policy communication that has a great impact on society in the process of developing legal documents in the period 2022–2027"; Scheme "Pilot innovation of activities to evaluate the effectiveness of law popularization and education"; Scheme "Strengthening people's ability to access the law"; Scheme “Improving the capacity of the team of law reporters and legal propagandists to carry out law popularization and education in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, border areas, and islands in the period 2024–2030" and other related Schemes after being approved by the Prime Minister.

Promote coordination between all levels of the Lawyers' Association with state agencies, socio-political organizations, socio-political-professional organizations, socio-professional organizations, other organizations, and businesses to create strong and positive changes in the work of law, popularization, and education of lawyers and Lawyers' Associations at all levels. Continue to research and promote the signing of coordination programs with other agencies and organizations to strengthen propaganda and dissemination of the Party's guidelines, policies, and laws of the State, and mobilize the people to respect and comply with the law.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association, District Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Commune-level Lawyers Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: Every year, from 2024 to 2030.

(11) Deploy and replicate point-direction activities

* Select a number of localities representing regions and regions across the country as points for synchronously implementing the Scheme's tasks.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: According to the period determined in the objectives section.

* Organize a summary, learn from the implementation of the Scheme's tasks in selected localities, and replicate.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: according to the period determined in the objectives section.

* Replicate effective models and methods in implementing law popularization and education.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: from 2027 to 2030.

(12) Check and evaluate the results of the Scheme implementation

* Annually organize evaluation of the results of the Scheme implementation in appropriate forms; organize preliminary and final reviews of the Scheme according to stages; focus on guiding and inspecting the implementation of the Scheme.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: Lawyers' Association at provincial, district, and commune levels; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

* Timely honor and reward positive groups and individuals who have made many important contributions to the implementation of law popularization and education.

- Presiding agency: Central Vietnam Lawyers Association, Provincial Lawyers Association.

- Coordinating agency: District and commune-level Lawyers' Association; units and branches of Lawyers; other relevant agencies and organizations.

- Implementation time: every year, from 2024 to 2030.

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