It aims to lower the povertyrate among ethnic groups living in the locality by 3-4 percent(equivalent to 8,000 households) on average each year.
In addition to investment from central and local authorities, theprovince has also called for contributions from businesses and the widercommunity.
The funding has gone into thebuilding of roads, schools and electricity networks to better serve thelives of local people. Many of the province’s rubber enterprises haveaided the local government in this work, while also committing to hiringworkers from ethnic groups.
Gia Lai has alsostrengthened the implementation of policies relating to povertyreduction among ethnic groups, including those on education, healthcare, family planning and social welfare.
As aresult of its efforts to reduce the poverty rate over a number of years,local people’s living conditions have considerably improved.
To date, roads and the national grid have been expanded to a thecentres of all communes, while 80 percent of households can receiveclean water.-VNA