Illustrative image (Photo: giaoduc.net) Dak Lak (VNA) – The CentralHighlands province of Dak Lak aims to cut the poor household rate by 2.5 – 3percent per year by 2020, said Pham Ngoc Nghi, Chairman of the provincialPeople’s Committee.
It targets to reduce the rate by from 4 –4.5 percent per year in the ethnic minority groups while improve livelihood andliving conditions and raising the income of the poor households by 1.9 times over2015’s level.
Policies on poverty reduction have beencomprehensively implemented, facilitating access to preferential creditpackages and social policies for over 250,000 poor and near-poor households andothers.
The locality has encouraged the involvementof local social organisations, such as the Women’s Union, the FarmersAssociation, and the Youth Union, in vocational training, job placement, andtechnical assistance.
Other supports have been provided for thetargeted groups, such as health insurance, education fee, vocational training,and legal consultation.
The province is mobilising differentresources to help build houses for 10,420 poor households.
It has integrated other local povertyreduction policies into the national target program on sustainable reduction ofpoverty in extremely disadvantaged communes with a view to increasing localpeople’s engagement in the effort.
From 2011 – 2015, the number of poorhouseholds in the province fell from 81,053 to 25,322, a drop of 2.96 percenton annual average, representing 98.67 percent of its plan.
The number of poverty-ridden ethnic minority householdsfell from over 46,000 to over 16,000, an annual average decrease of 5.39 percent. The number of near-poor households reduced by over8,000, or 8.59 percent to 3.73 percent, according to Nghi.-VNA
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