Roadmap for streamlining staff of cadres and civil servants in many localities

According to the orientation of the Politburo in Conclusion No. 40-KL/TW, the period 2027-2031 will continue to implement staff streamlining of the political system from about 5% to 10% based on the plan, roadmap, and commitments of responsibility of each agency, unit, organization, and locality in implementing decentralization, delegation of power, application of science and technology, and digital transformation.

At the same time, streamline internal organizations, arrange public non-business units, and reduce the number of leaders of agencies, units, and organizations.

Over the past time, localities have been gradually reviewing the arrangement of organizational structure, streamlining staff, arranging public non-business units and evaluating the actual operational efficiency after arrangement.

In Lang Son province, the Provincial People's Committee has just additionally assigned more than 26.6 billion VND of the 2026 budget estimate to agencies, units, communes, and wards to implement policies and regimes according to Decree 154/2025/ND-CP on streamlining staff.

According to the decision, the source of money is taken from funds for salary reform, salary fluctuations, policies and other targeted tasks that have been allocated by the Provincial People's Committee in the 2026 budget estimate.

This funding is used to implement policies and regimes according to Decree 154, including regimes for non-specialized workers at the commune level.

In Bac Ninh province, regarding the development of staff streamlining plans, the Department of Home Affairs requests that every year, no later than December 1 of the year immediately preceding, agencies, units, and localities must develop staff streamlining plans, which clearly state the structure and proportion of staff streamlining; make a list of streamlined subjects and estimate expenses for implementation in accordance with regulations.

The staff streamlining plan must be consistent with the requirements of arranging the organizational structure, job positions, civil servant rank structure, professional titles of public employees and the ability to perform tasks of agencies and units after staff streamlining.

The Department of Home Affairs also requested to supplement a number of dossier components such as: Decisions on reception and transfer; confirmation of health status for cases of health retirement; dossiers for evaluating and ranking cadres, civil servants, public employees for 3 consecutive years and related documents as a basis for determining streamlining subjects.

Regarding the organization of implementation, heads of agencies, units, and localities are responsible for managing and using assigned staff effectively and in accordance with regulations; proactively review, arrange, and arrange the contingent of cadres, civil servants, public employees and employees in accordance with their job positions, ensuring stable operation of agencies and units after implementing staff streamlining.

In Can Tho, the city has issued a project "Promoting streamlining of staff; improving the quality of the contingent of cadres, especially the contingent of city-level leaders and managers in the period 2026-2031".

The overarching spirit of the project is to streamline staff not only to reduce the number, but also to focus on improving the quality of staff and the operational efficiency of the apparatus.

The management and use of staff is oriented to strongly shift from quantitative targets to job positions, job descriptions, capacity frameworks, work products and task performance efficiency.

A breakthrough point is that in addition to implementing staff streamlining according to the Central Government's regulations, the city strives to reduce an additional minimum of 5% of the staff compared to the assigned staff in 2025, excluding the staff of health and education officials, equivalent to about 896 people.

The further reduction is aimed at restructuring the team, recruiting the right people for the right jobs, prioritizing key and specialized fields with the ability to lead development.

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