VBSP system includes:

• Head Office located in Hanoi;
• Transaction Centre subordinated to the Head Office, Training center, provincial and municipal branches; 
• District- level transaction offices (with their own seals and managed by Director)

Administration and management: VBSP’s administration is the Board of Directors (BOD), the BOD has a number of Representative Units at provincial and district levels (headed by Chairpersons or Vice-chairpersons of equivalent-level People’s Committees). Managing VBSP is a General Director and his/her subordinates.

Financial regime: Its fiscal year begins on January, 1st and ends on December, 31^st of the calendar year. VBSP is a concentrated accounting unit in the whole system with financial autonomy; self-responsible for its own operation legally; implementing capital maintenance and development; covering costs and credit risk.

Risk management: VBSP shall provision credit risk as part of operational costs to cover all the risks arising from the individual and local cases beyond control according to regulations of the Government (at present, provision rate is equal to 0.02% of the average annual loan outstanding). In case the provisioning is not sufficient to cover risks of the year, VBSP submit to the Governmental for additional compensation.

Network:

A nation-wide network from Head Office to communes has been constituted:

• A Head Office;
• A Transaction center;
• One IT center;
• One Training center;
• Seven Training Facilities;
• 34 provincial and municipal branches;
• 682 transaction offices at districts;
• Nearly 10,000 fix-dated transaction points at communes/wards;
• Over 165,000 savings and credit groups at village/hamlet.
• 6.7 million active borrowers (small households)

Organization

Administration: Includes BOD at central level and BOD Representative Units at provincial, municipal and district level (Headed by Chairperson or Vice- chairperson of People Committee at the same level), of which:

• The Board of Directors (at central level);
• 34 BOD Representative Units at provincial/ municipal level;
• Over 600 BOD Representative Units at district level

Management: The number of VBSP staff  is over 10,000 to date.

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