Mapping out the strategic guidelines, the annual as well as 5 year plans, the regulations and policies on population and family planning to be presented to the Council of Ministers for approval. Acting as the main coordinator of and giving guidelines to all branches and people's committees at various levels in mapping out and conducting the implementation of the above-mentioned plans.

Acting in collaboration with the State Planning Committee in balancing the population and family planning schemes with the national socio-economic development plans.

The NCPFP is authorized by the Council of Ministers to work out proposals to various international institutions and foreign countries regarding the cooperation and aids for the population and family planning programme, and together with the State Planning Committee in making allocations, giving instructions and monitoring the utilization of such assistance for population activities in the most effective way.

Monitoring and inspecting various branches, People's Committee and mass organizations in education and implementation of plan and policies on population and family planning.

Acting in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance ensuring the allocation, distribution and utilization of budget, capital investment equipment and materials in service of the population and family planning programme.

Coordinating with the branches concerned in integrating the population and family planning programme with their sectoral plans on the basis of the guidelines proposed by the NCPFP and approved by the Council of Ministers, in organizing the collection of statistical data on population and family planning.

Carrying out the budgeting, management, coordination and utilization of all resources (including foreign aids) for achieving the objectives, plans, programmes and activities on population and family planning.

Conducting the monitoring and evaluations (by itself or in coordination with the branches and organizations concerned) of the results of the implementation of the population and family planning programme.

Requesting the branches and mass organizations concerned at various levels to supply information on population and family planning.

The State Planning Committee (The SPC) is responsible for the cooperation with the NCPFP in working out, generalizing and balancing the annual as well as 5 year plans for population and family planning to be submitted at the same time with the socio-economic development plans to the Council of Ministers for approval. The SPC coordinates with the NCPFP in mapping out the population polices in distributing and supervising the utilization of domestic funds as well as foreign aids, in implementing the population plans already approved by the. Council of Ministers.

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for coordination with the NCPFP in arranging and calling for funds from the various sources such as: The State budget, local budgets, people’s contributions and aids from international institutions, in defining the distribution and utilization mechanism, inspecting the utilization of financial resources reserved for population and family' planning programme.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is responsible for mother and child's health care; organizing and maintaining regular operations of inter-communal family planning centers; setting the technical norms regarding contraceptives as well as MCH methods and services; defining the category of imported products for the population and family planning programmes; maintaining the technical services with a view to fully supplying to users throughout the country the contraceptive devices of increasingly-raised quality thus drastically reducing the fertility rate; conducting campaigns to introduce scientific ways of baby carrying; laying out the data collecting network and periodically making public the MOH's achievements in the field of Mother and Child’s health care; making suggestions on the settlement of issues within the control of MOH concerning the population and family planning programme.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MET) is responsible for the introduction of population and family planning education programme into all of' its schools and colleges; embarking upon the education programme for parents whose children are among the 3-5 year old group with a view to supplying them necessary knowledge in child caring. The MET must become an education center in the mobilization of the whole community to take part in the population and family planning activities.

The Ministry of Culture-Information-Sports and Tourism is responsible for carrying out the Information-Education-Communication programmes in line with the general programme for population and family planning; giving guidelines to and coordinating with mass media organizations at the various levels nationwide (The Vietnamese Broadcasting and T.V station, the various newspapers and publications... ) in order to enabling the full access of each individual as well as family to the population and family planning information thus readjusting their perceptions in conformity with the national tradition and modern civilization. 

The IEC activities must aim at making people fully aware of the benefits gained to themselves and the whole society once they accept the small-sized family model and carry out population and family planning programme.

The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs is responsible, for mapping out policies and means to properly utilize the manpower resources; building the migrant mechanism and policy; monitoring and inspecting the implementation of migrant projects so as successfully carry out the population and family planing programmes.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) is responsible for building a network of information statistics with a view to correctly reflect the population dynamics and development, the socio-economic indicators relating to population development; collecting, processing and supplying those information to the NCPFP's member ministries and branches thus making contribution to the evaluation of results of the population and family planning plans and programmes. At the same time, the GSO data also serve as a foundation for mapping out future population plans and programmes.

The various mass organizations and public institutions must positively coordinate with the NCPFP in designing their own action programmes gearing at making positive contribution to materializing the population and family planning’s objectives; mobilize their members to voluntarily involve in the population and family planning campaigns and persuade others to do so. Subject to their specific characteristics and obligation they will define the appropriate contents, scopes and objectives for their programmes.

The Ministry of Defense and The Interior Ministry are responsible for conducting education campaigns to the soldiers, officers and policemen about population and family planning in order to ensuring that they be good acceptors and educators of the population and family planning programme during their service term as well as when demobilized.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for timely informing and suggesting to the NCPFP information on potentials of international assistance and cooperation in the field of population and family planning. Together with the NCPFP in supervising and evaluating the cooperation with international organizations in population and family planning programmes.

In those ministries which are much engaged in activities relating to population works such as : The Ministry of Health, The Ministry of Education and Training, The State Planning Committee, The Ministry of Culture-Information-Sports and Tourism and other mass media organizations there must be a specialized section comprising of competent and full-time cadres who will be consultants to their respective ministries on population and family Planning issues. In other ministries and general departments, there will be concurrently assigned cadres acting as consultants on population and family planning subject to necessity.

It is also necessary to set up a specialized section including full-time or part-time cadres who are competent of consulting matters on population and family planning to the leaders in the following mass organizations: The Central Committee of Women’s Union, The Youth Union's Central Committee, The Central Committee of Peasants' Association, The Vietnamese Confederation of Trade Union.

In the various offices and enterprises, the population and family planning programmes should be incorporated into their agenda. Each of the above-said unit must assign the population works to its key leader who in turn will form a consultative body undertaking the population and family planning activities in the unit.

Each province, city or special zone controlled by the central government establishes its own population and family planning committee (PCPFP) which is a subordinate organ of the people's committee and chaired by the standing vice-chairman of the people's committee. A full-time vice -chairman of the PCPFP together with a group of competent specialists on population and family planning are responsible for assisting the PCPFP's chairman and coordinating with the branches concerned in implementing the population and family planning programme in their locality. The components of PCPFP's members are similar to those of the PCPFP. Apart from the full-time cadres of the PCPFP, whenever it is considered necessary, a number of cadres from PCPFP's member branches will be mobilized to form a task-force in consulting, managing, regulating and implementing the population and family planning programmes. The PCPFP has its own seal, budget and office.

At the district and equivalent levels there is a population and family planning department (PFPD) subordinating to the people's committee of the district and headed by a vice-chairman of the people’s committee’s of the district. The PFPD has 1 to 2 full-time cadres. Members of PFPD are representatives of Health care, Education, Finance, Statistics, Culture-Information branches and other mass organizations in the district.

At the communal and living-quarter level, the People's Committee undertakes the population and family planning works with its vice-chairman assigned for the implementation of this work together with a task-force in the commune.