There are still difficulties and obstacles in implementing 3 National Target Programs.

According to the Government's report presented by Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, the direction and implementation of national target programs is always a key and regular task of the Government and is closely and resolutely directed by the Prime Minister. In the Government's Resolutions and the Prime Minister's directive documents, the highest requirements are always set, setting out key tasks and solutions for ministries, central and local agencies to accelerate the implementation progress and disbursement of capital for the 3 national target programs.

Regarding the results of disbursement of state budget capital for target programs, it shows that for the capital plan of 2021, the total disbursed budget for national target programs in 2021 is 1,078 billion VND, reaching 88.95% of the plan. For the capital plan of 2022, by January 31, 2023, the disbursed capital in 2022 was about 14,468,011 billion VND, reaching 42.49% of the plan (of which: development investment capital is about 12,933,106 billion VND, reaching 54% of the plan; budget for public services is about 1,534.35 billion VND, reaching 7.82%).

By June 2023, the disbursement of public investment funds from the central budget reached about VND 1,131,044 billion, reaching 5.33% of the plan. By August 31, 2023, the disbursement of public investment capital in 2023 was about VND 10,139,674 billion, reaching 41.9% of the plan. If calculating the total public investment capital disbursed in 2023 (including investment capital in 2022 extended to 2023), by August 31, 2023, the disbursement result reached about VND 16,365,331 billion, reaching 47.81% of the plan.

Regarding the implementation of the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, the target for the average poverty reduction rate in ethnic minority areas is 3.4% (achieved compared to the level of over 3% of the assigned plan target).

According to the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction, the poverty rate according to the multidimensional poverty standard in 2022 is 4.03%, down 1.17%, reaching the target specified in Decision No. 90/QD-TTg; reaching the target assigned by the National Assembly and the Government. The poverty rate of ethnic minority households in 2022 is 21.02%, down 4.89% compared to 2021, reaching the target specified in Decision No. 90/QD-TTg. The poverty rate in 74 poor districts is 38.62% (down 6.35%), reaching the target assigned by the National Assembly and the Government (4%). There are 22/74 poor districts being invested in according to Decision No. 880/QD-TTg dated July 22, 2022 of the Prime Minister. The estimated poverty rate according to the multidimensional poverty standard in 2023 is 2.93%, (down 1.1%); The poverty rate in poor districts is about 33% (down 5.62%); the poverty rate of ethnic minority households is about 17.82% (down 3.2%), achieving the target assigned by the National Assembly and the Government.

In order to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles, creating conditions for localities to implement the 3 national target programs, the Government submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and submission to the National Assembly for supplementing 5 groups of policy solutions on the authority to decide on the order, procedures, criteria, and sample documents for selecting projects and models to support production development; on the use of the state budget to support the chairing of associations (enterprises, cooperatives), groups of households implementing production development and the management of assets formed after support; on the assignment of a list of small-scale projects and works with non-complicated techniques to be implemented according to a specific mechanism in the assignment of medium-term public investment plans, on the assignment of annual central budget estimates for career expenditures, on the mechanism of entrusting state budget capital through the banking system to support the implementation of national target programs.

Presenting the Report proposing and resolving the Government's recommendations on specific solutions and mechanisms to remove difficulties and obstacles, speeding up the implementation of the National Target Programs, Chairman of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council - - Deputy Head of the Standing Delegation of the Supervisory Delegation Y Thanh Ha Nie Kdam said that the Supervisory Delegation highly agreed on the necessity for the Government to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and promulgation of a number of specific solutions and policies to remove obstacles, creating favorable conditions for localities to speed up the implementation of the National Target Programs with the goal of putting the interests of the people first in the context that the disbursement rate of state budget capital for these Programs is still relatively low and the remaining implementation time is not much, while the lives of the people who are the beneficiaries are still facing many difficulties.

Based on the practical situation, the Supervisory Delegation proposed that the National Assembly Standing Committee consider and agree in principle with the Government's proposal, allowing the provisions on specific solutions and mechanisms in the National Assembly's thematic supervision resolution without issuing a separate resolution; Regarding the implementation period, it agrees with the Government's proposal to only apply the provisions until the end of 2025 to match the implementation period of the National Target Programs. After that, based on the assessment of the results of the implementation of the Programs, the Government will report to the National Assembly for consideration and decision on the implementation in the next phase...

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