New proposal on management mechanism and organization of implementation of national target programs

(Chinhphu.vn) - The Ministry of Finance is issuing a Decree regulating the management mechanism and organization of implementation of national target programs.

The Ministry of Finance proposes to regulate the management mechanism and organization of implementation of national target programs.

The Ministry of Finance said that the draft Decree aims to create a unified, synchronous, transparent, feasible, accessible, effective and efficient legal framework in the management of national target programs.

The Draft Decree is structured into 8 chapters, including 62 articles on the basis of reviewing and inheriting the provisions of Decree No. 27/2022/ND-CP, Decree No. 38/2023/ND-CP; supplementing and amending new provisions in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Public Investment 2024 (amended and supplemented by Law No. 90/2025/QH15), the Law on State Budget 2025; Resolution No. 190/2025/QH15 and Resolutions of the National Assembly approving the investment policy of each national target program and overcoming a number of shortcomings and limitations drawn from the implementation process in the period 2021-2025.

Establish, approve, assign and adjust plans to implement the national target program for the 5-year period and annually.

The draft proposes regulations on the establishment and assignment of plans for implementing national target programs for the 5-year period (Articles 5 and 6) in the direction of detailing the process from the stage of proposing the need for medium-term public investment capital to the stage of allocating, assigning, and issuing implementation plans at ministries, central agencies and localities. In which, the following provisions are added:

The process and responsibility of the program owner is to propose the need for allocating medium-term public investment capital for the 5-year period of each program at the same time as completing the Investment Policy Proposal Report and Feasibility Study Report.

Allocate and assign the 5-year medium-term public investment plan in the direction of the Prime Minister allocating and assigning the 5-year medium-term public investment plan to implement each program according to the total capital of each program in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister at the Government Standing Committee meeting on August 4, 2025.

The People's Council at the provincial level decides or delegates to the commune level to decide on the detailed allocation of the 5-year medium-term public investment plan to the list of component projects and public investment projects to implement each national target program.

Contents of promulgating plans to implement national target programs at central and local program management agencies.

In addition, the draft proposes regulations on the order of preparation and decision on state budget estimates and annual public investment plans (Article 7), including allocation and assignment of capital support plans from the central budget to localities according to the principle that the Prime Minister assigns the total budget estimates and plans according to the program; localities decide on detailed allocation.

The draft proposes to supplement regulations on the organization of implementation of national target programs (Article 8) to clarify the time limit for allocation, assignment, and implementation; reporting content; principles and responsibilities for handling when ministries, central and local agencies fail to allocate and disburse capital assigned by the Prime Minister.

Continue to implement the community participation planning method in planning the implementation of national target programs at the commune level (Article 9) to ensure people's participation according to the principle of the State and people working together.

Supplementing regulations on adjusting the implementation plan of national target programs for the 5-year period and annually (Article 10) to complete the content and handle recommendations and proposals from localities during the implementation of national target programs.

Mobilizing and using capital to implement national target programs

In Chapter III of the draft, the Ministry of Finance proposes regulations on inheriting solutions to ensure the mobilization and use of each capital source in the process of organizing the implementation of national target programs at the local level, including: balancing, arranging and using state budget capital (Article 11) and specific mechanisms in using state budget capital to support investment for policy subjects (Article 12); solutions to integrate capital sources (Article 13), mobilize credit capital (Article 14), mobilize other legal capital (in Article 15). In which, new regulations are added:

In principle, the allocation of the state budget to implement national target programs (in Clause 2, Article 11) is adjusted in the following direction:

- Allocate central budget capital to implement national target programs according to the principle of central allocation to ministries, central agencies and localities according to the total capital of each program; ministries, central agencies and localities decide on detailed allocation, select content and implementation solutions.

- The Prime Minister decides or authorizes Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and agencies directly under the Government to decide on principles, criteria, and norms for allocating central budget capital to ministries, central agencies, and localities.

- The People's Council at the provincial level decides on the principles, criteria, and norms for allocating state budget capital (including targeted support capital from the central budget and self-balancing capital from the local budget) to agencies, units, and affiliated levels to implement national target programs at the local level.

Regarding the specific mechanism in supporting investment for policy subjects under the content of the national target program. The draft proposes 2 options:

Option 1: Supplement and amend regulations on specific mechanisms suitable for the organization of 2-level local governments; at the same time, separate the regulations on specific mechanisms into 1 Article in Chapter III.

Option 2: abolish the special mechanism regulations.

The reasons given by the Ministry of Finance are:

- A special mechanism is included in Decree No. 38/2023/ND-CP to supplement the legal basis for using public investment capital to support people in ethnic minority areas to build houses under Project 1 of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority Areas for the 2021-2025 period. However, this mechanism is not unified and does not simplify the procedures like the mechanism for using public capital to support people in poor districts to build houses under Project 5 of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2021-2025 period.

According to the report, localities only apply the mechanism to disburse public investment capital under Project 1 of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority Areas for the 2021-2025 period; no new policies applying this mechanism are issued. At the same time, most localities propose to unify the implementation of housing support policies using regular budgets.

- According to the document of the Conference summarizing the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions proposed to use public capital to implement housing support policies for ethnic minorities; it did not propose to use public investment capital for support.

In addition, the draft proposes to supplement the method of mobilizing policy credit capital to implement national target programs in localities through implementing the mechanism of entrusting local budget capital according to the provisions of the 2024 Law on Public Investment.

Please read the full draft and give your comments here.

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