Public Investment Disbursement Designated as a Core Political Task and Tied Directly to Officials' KPI Appraisals

This instruction was issued by Mr. Tran Duy Dong—Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee—while chairing a conference on May 27. The session was convened to hear departments, boards, and sectors report on the 2026 public investment capital disbursement performance across regional Project Management Boards (PMBs). Attending the conference was Mr. Nguyen Huy Ngoc—Member of the Provincial Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee.

Provincial People’s Committee Chairman Tran Duy Dong delivers his concluding and directive speech at the conference.

According to a report presented by the Department of Finance, the total allocated capital pool for the entire province in 2026 stands at over 9,853 billion VND. Notably, the capital earmarked for the three regional PMBs commands up to 93.1% of the province’s total budget (equivalent to 9,176.689 billion VND). As of May 25, 2026, the three regional PMBs successfully disbursed over 1,053 billion VND, satisfying 11.5% of the set plan.

By May 25, 2026, 36 newly commenced projects were allocated capital from the 2026 plan budget and the 2025 surplus revenue source. Breaking down the execution pipelines: 23 projects finalized their investment policy appraisals; 3 projects secured formal approvals and are currently running bidding processes to select civil contractors; and 11 projects obtained investment policy approvals, with owners actively completing institutional procedures to submit for formal project endorsements.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Huy Ngoc addresses the conference.

For 7 projects that finalized their investment policy proposal appraisals, the Provincial People’s Committee is perfecting the submission workflow to the Party Committee of the Provincial People’s Committee to report to the Standing Committee and the Standing Board of the Provincial Party Committee for guidance, securing the mandatory eligibility for formal approvals.

At the session, leaders of regional PMBs reported their task assignment schemes, while frankly analyzing and clarifying structural bottlenecks in disbursement workflows, proposing solutions to attain the highest possible disbursement rate in the first half of 2026.

A representative from the leadership of the Department of Finance presents a detailed report on the disbursement progress of the three regional PMBs.

Concluding the conference, Chairman Tran Duy Dong commended the candid spirit of sectors, localities, and regional PMBs. He emphasized that the Provincial People’s Committee will drastically direct operations to ensure strict adherence to the public investment capital disbursement timeline dictated in Notice No. 280/TB-UBND dated May 4, 2026, issued by the Chairman.

Sharing the specific, unique hurdles faced by regional PMBs, the Chairman requested units to fundamentally innovate their mindsets and working methods, proactively and flexibly coordinating with departments, sectors, and localities to deploy tailored response mechanisms.

The Chairman mandated clear accountability and task assignments for individual Deputy Directors and officers in charge to definitively resolve each specific workflow. Units must proactively report emerging difficulties and bottlenecks to the Chairman and the in-charge Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People’s Committee for timely resolution.

The Chairman explicitly reaffirmed that Phu Tho Province designates public investment disbursement as a top-tier political mission, serving as a barometer and core criterion to apply Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in assessing official capacities. The province will resolutely replace or reassign officials who exhibit inadequate capacities or a low sense of responsibility in public service execution.

Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Huy Nhuan proposes specific solutions to untangle difficulties regarding soil embankment sourcing.

To accelerate progress moving forward, the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee assigned concrete tasks to individual units. Specifically, the Department of Finance is tasked with researching and advising on plans to reallocate capital sources between projects, while synthesizing capital transfer proposals for works that no longer bear expenditure missions, run out of workload volume, or fail to satisfy payment eligibility.

The Department of Agriculture and Environment shall preside over and coordinate tightly with Project Management Boards (PMBs) to thoroughly untangle all difficulties tied to soil embankment sourcing for construction.

Regarding projects lacking documentation due to institutional handovers and merger processes, the PMBs must intensively work with previous project owners to wrap up dossier handovers before May 30, 2026. They must urgently construct a Gantt chart critical path and provide weekly disbursement updates to the Department of Finance for synthesis.

For transitional projects, the targeted milestones are strictly set as follows: achieving a minimum disbursement rate of 50% by June 30, 2026; hitting 75% or higher by September 30, 2026; and fulfilling 100% of the allocated capital plan by December 31, 2026. In parallel, units must perfect institutional procedures to guarantee the commencement of 36 new projects.

Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Tran Quang Tuan addresses the conference.

The Chairman tasked the Department of Home Affairs with integrating critical path timelines into the formulation of disbursement KPIs, grounded upon the directives of the Provincial People’s Committee and feedback from the Ministry of Finance to urge project owners.

Provincial departments, boards, and sectors must regularly conduct field monitoring, delivering timely guidance and support to project owners, PMBs, and commune-level People’s Committees to untangle bottlenecks within their jurisdiction. Any unit delaying guidance and consequently disrupting disbursement progress must bear full accountability before the Provincial People’s Committee.

The Regional Treasury No. VIII is directed to instruct specialized professional divisions to step up audits and guide payment procedures, prioritizing electronic disbursement on digital platforms. They must guarantee payment settlement for eligible projects within a maximum window of 3 working days, preventing any backlog aggregation toward the year-end.

Commune-level People’s Committees and regional Land Fund Development Centers must highly concentrate on site clearance workflows, strengthening public communications to build community consensus regarding compensation policies. They must accelerate the investment speed of residential and resettlement zones according to master plans, standing ready to hand over clean land funds to construction contractors.

Dinh Vu