On March 17, according to information from the Ministry of Home Affairs, in March 2026, this agency will continue to guide and coordinate with ministries, branches, and localities to advise competent authorities to remove and resolve difficulties and obstacles when operating the 2-level local government model.
In which, the Ministry of Home Affairs will advise competent authorities to direct ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government, and localities to continue to review and improve their functions, tasks, powers, and working relationships.
These agencies will proceed to arrange and consolidate the organizational structure, administrative organization, and public non-business units to ensure streamlining, effective and efficient operation, reducing intermediate levels, in accordance with the guiding viewpoints of the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee.
Notably, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the arrangement and consolidation of the organizational structure will be associated with streamlining staff, restructuring, and improving the quality of the contingent of cadres and civil servants, meeting the requirements in the new situation.
Also in March, the Ministry of Home Affairs will focus on completing and submitting to the Central Steering Committee and the Politburo on the current status of staff management for the period 2022-2026 and proposing staff for the period 2026-2031;
Urge and inspect the review, arrangement, and assignment of cadres, civil servants, and public employees to ensure the correct job positions and meet task requirements. Focus on developing documents detailing the implementation of the Law on Public Employees (amended).
Currently, the streamlining of the staff of cadres, civil servants, and public employees is being implemented according to Decree No. 154/2025/ND-CP of the Government regulating streamlining of staff.
This Decree stipulates the subjects, principles, policies for streamlining staff and responsibilities for implementing streamlining staff in agencies, organizations, and public non-business units of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations from central to commune levels.
The regimes and policies on streamlining staff specified in Decree 154/2025/ND-CP are applied until the end of December 31, 2030.
Decree 154 clearly stipulates many groups of subjects implementing staff streamlining, including some groups such as:
- Cadres, civil servants, and public employees in charge of leadership and management resign from leadership and management positions and titles due to restructuring and improving the quality of the leadership and management team according to the decision of the competent authority or by the decision of the competent authority to resign from leadership and management positions, individuals voluntarily implementing staff streamlining and being agreed upon by agencies, organizations, and units directly managing;
- Surplus due to review and rearrangement of personnel according to decisions of competent authorities or surplus due to public non-business units rearranging personnel to implement autonomy mechanisms;
- Excess due to restructuring cadres, civil servants, and public employees according to job positions, but cannot be arranged for other jobs or arranged for other jobs but individuals voluntarily streamline staff and are agreed upon by agencies, organizations, and units directly managing;
