(VOVworld) - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has requested that relevant agencies improve the disbursement and use of Official Development Assistance (ODA) this year.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai addresses the meeting on February 3rd, 2015. Photo: VGP/Nguyen Linh

Ministries, agencies and localities must carefully implement ODA projects, including close supervision to manage any difficulties and prevent misappropriation, he told a meeting between the National Steering Committee for ODA and Preferential Loans and six development banks in Hanoi on Tuesday. The Deputy PM, who is also Head of the Committee, asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to design an action plan for the Committee which specifies solutions to existing problems.