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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUPLIC ADMINISTRATION
NGUYEN ANH TU
NGUYỄN ANH TÚ
THE CURRENT STATE MANAGEMENT OF CIVIL
STATUS IN NORTHERN BORDER PROVINCES OF
VIETNAM
Major: Public Management
Code: 9.34.04.03
SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION OF PUBLIC
MANAGEMENT
HA NOI - 2018
The work has been completed at:
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUPLIC ADMINISTRATION
Supervisors:
PGS.TS. LƯƠNG THANH CƯỜNG
TS. HOÀNG THỊ NGÂN
Reviewer 1: ………………………………………….
Reviewer 2: ………………………………………….
Reviewer 3: ………………………………………….
The dissertation is presented at the Academic-level Dissertation Assessment
Council
Location: Meeting Hall ... floor ... National Academy of Public Administration
No.77, Nguyen Chi Thanh, Dong Da, Hanoi
Time: ... date ... month ... 2018
The dissertation can be found at the library of National Academy of Public
Administration or on the Website of the Post – graduate Department,
National Academy of Public Administration
PREFACE
1. The necessary of the study
State management of civil status has been a requirement that our state always pay
much attention to and spends a lot of time, effort and capital on. In the past time, there
have been documents on state management to solve problems related to civil status.
Nowadays, due to the country's development, the increasing demand for international
integration, the civil status, not only domestic, but also foreign factor related ones such
as marriage, sex reassignment, surrogacy and adopting children, etc. become more and
more popular and tend to increase.
State management of civil status in the Northern border provinces has been
implemented synchronously by state agencies at all levels and the state management
mechanism on civil status has been deployed from the central to the commune level,
contingent of civil status and justice servants, heads of People's Committees at all
levels are equipped with knowledge to implement the state management in the
localities. In general, state management of civil status has been gradually improving
and has gained certain results in maintaining staff, organizational structure and
working performance.
However, the practice of state management of civil status in the Northern border
provinces still reveals many issues that need to be studied such as the impact of natural
terrain factors, economic factor, cultural and social factors and other influencing
factors. These factors include long-standing and still-existing backward customs,
which have become a corollary and have negative impact on society, human rights and
citizenship; current issues such as limited accessing to civil status of citizens; poor
economic conditions, destitute infrastructure, specific locations of border provinces
associated with foreign elements, together with the problem of mountainous and
divided terrain, the traffic system is difficult to access, far from the administrative
center, the administrative and institutional apparatus is inadequate, and inefficiency
and other civil status issues remain.
From the above situation, the state management of civil status in the Northern
border provinces needs to be recognized and assessed objectively and urgently in order
to have solutions for reorganization and improvement. This should have
comprehensive studies on civil status in the Northern border provinces at the aim to
search for supplement of the scientific foundations for further improving the state
management of civil status effectively and efficiently making contribution to promote
socio-economic development, national defense and security and ensuring human rights
and citizenship.
This is the reason for the topic “The current state management of civil status in the
Northern border provinces of Vietnam” has been selected as a research topic of
doctoral dissertation in public management major of the National Academy of Public
Administration.
2. Purposes and tasks of the study
2.1. Purposes of the study
The purpose of the dissertation is on the base of presenting and analyzing
theoretical basic and current status of state management of civil status in the Northern
border provinces, at the aim to provide scientific recommendations making
contribution to ensure state management of civil status in the Northern border
provinces of Viet Nam.
2.2. Tasks of the study
To systematize and evaluate the research situation related to the topic, thus
identifying the issues that the dissertation will inherit as well as issues that the
dissertation need to be further studied; To interpret and clarify the theoretical issue of
state management of civil status such as civil status, contents of state management of
civil status, experiences of some countries on the state management of civil status and
reference values for Vietnam and Northern border provinces; To survey, analyze and
evaluate the practice of state management of civil status in the Northern border
provinces, clarify the achieved results, the weaknesses and their causes; provide
scientific recommendations on the improvement of state management of civil status in
the Northern border provinces.
3. Objects and scope of the study
3.1. Objects of the study:
Theoretical and practical issues of state management on civil status.
3.2. Scope of the study
The dissertation has scope of study on:
- Space: in Northern border provinces of Viet Nam;
- Time: since 2006 (the time of Decree 158/2005/NĐ-CP came to effect) to
present;
- Content:
The state management of civil status in the Northern border provinces has a wide
scope related to many areas and scope of the dissertation focuses on the following
contents:
+ Civil status;
+ State management of civil status (subject, content);
+ Status of state management of civil status in the Northern border areas of the
Northern border provinces;
+ Viewpoints and solutions to ensure state management in Northern border
provinces.
4. Methodology and research methodology
4.1. Methodology:
The dissertation was studied on the basis of dialectical materialism methodology,
Marxist-Leninist historical materialism, Ho Chi Minh Ideology and the Viet Nam
Communist Party's and State’s viewpoints and guidelines on civil status policy in
general and civil status in the Northern border provinces in particular.
4.2. Research methodology
(1) Method of studying texts and documents
(2) Method of statistics, synthesis, analysis
Use statistical data from 2006 to 2017 to collect, synthetize and analyze indicators
and contents related to civil status registration in border provinces. On the basis of
aggregated data, questionnaires, sociological surveys, to analyze the good aspects,
limitations, shortcomings and causes.
(3) Method of survey:
Distribute the questionnaire to survey the needs of the people and at the same time
reflect and evaluate the management decisions and responsibilities of state agencies
and authorities towards people in the area of civil status;
5. 5. Scientific hypothesis, research questions
5.1. Scientific hypothesis
At present, the state management of civil status has been implemented under a
general mechanism throughout the country, without consideration given to the
particularities of the border areas, hence, state management of civil status in these
specific areas have many shortcomings. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the state
management of civil status in the Northern border areas in the direction of attaching
importance to the particularities of these area.
5.2. Research question