In 2023, the total capital for national target programs assigned to the province for management is VND 969,313 billion. By the end of the first 6 months of the year, VND 22,337 billion was disbursed (reaching 3.36% of the total capital plan). The remaining workload is very large while the implementation time is not much, it is very difficult to disburse 100% of the capital for national target programs.
Currently, almost no locality has implemented projects to support, develop production, and create livelihoods under the national target programs. All districts said that the guiding documents are lacking or are general, making it difficult to implement. Regarding production support projects alone, districts, towns, and cities have had 35 opinions and recommendations requesting the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to answer and remove obstacles, focusing mainly on the following contents: Technical and economic standards for projects; no standards for livestock barns, labor, etc., causing difficulties in accounting for counterpart funds of households participating in the project; some regulations and instructions are not suitable to local realities; regulations on the number of participants in projects and models are still general.
For example, in Dien Bien Dong district, the total public capital for 2 years (2022 - 2023) is 119,365 billion VND; disbursed by July 31 is 19,216 billion VND, reaching 10.1% of the capital plan. The disbursed capital mainly belongs to projects and sub-projects using public capital with investment nature such as: Investing in essential infrastructure, serving production and life in ethnic minority and mountainous areas and public service units in the ethnic sector; supporting investment in socio-economic infrastructure; building houses for poor households; communication projects, career support. Up to now, 100% of production support projects of all 3 programs have not been implemented.
Mr. Nguyen Van Tien, Head of the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of Dien Bien Dong district, said: Regarding the capital source of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction, Dien Bien Dong district prioritizes the implementation of projects with full and clear guidance documents. For example, Project 5 on Housing Support for Poor and Near-Poor Households, the disbursement rate has reached 92.4% so far. Regarding projects supporting production according to the value chain, although the District People's Committee has organized training for grassroots cadres directly implementing the project since the beginning of the year, due to incomplete regulations and guidance, communes and towns have not yet implemented it. Therefore, there is no volume to disburse capital.
In addition to the lack of guidance documents, the fact that career capital is assigned in detail to each component project, specifically assigned to each content in the fields of health, education, culture, and economy leads to many contents that are not suitable for the spending tasks of the locality. The content that needs to be spent is not allocated, some contents are allocated too much, exceeding the spending tasks, and cannot be disbursed. Meanwhile, the locality cannot self-adjust because this authority belongs to the Central Government. The current capital allocation reduces the locality's initiative and affects the effectiveness of budget use. For example, La Cha village (Pa Tan commune, Nam Po district) has 82 households of Cong ethnic group. In recent years, La Cha village has benefited from many capital sources to invest in infrastructure and support production of a specific nature. In 2022 - 2023, implementing the national target programs, La Cha village continues to be allocated more than 10 billion VND of investment capital for maintenance and repair of works. In addition, the health sector's capital is more than 10 billion VND. The allocated capital is very large but there is no spending content or it exceeds the spending capacity, so it cannot be disbursed. Similar to the vocational training sector, the allocated capital is quite large but it is difficult to disburse because there are no vocational trainees, lack of facilities, and difficult training linkages.
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