Social policy credit has reached all the communal-level localities nationwide, greatly helping with efforts towards sustainable poverty reduction, heard a teleconference in Hanoi on September 23.
The central city of Da Nang has applied various measures to encourage locals to take part in the movement of building new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas and reaped fruitful outcomes.
The Mekong Delta province of Long An has been allocated 28 billion VND (1.2 million USD) to carry out the national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction in 2019, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Overdue debts and deferred debts accounted for only 0.78 percent of total outstanding debts of the Bank for Social Policies, which demonstrated the quality of credit and the trust-worthy process.
The number of low-income households is growing in ethnic minority areas, with the poverty reduction tempo in these communities also lower than the national, according to Minister-Chairman of the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Do Van Chien.
Vinh Hai commune of Ninh Hai district, the south central province of Ninh Thuan, has been added to the list of particularly disadvantaged communes in coastal sandbank and insular areas in the 2018 – 2020 period.
Vietnam is taking active and drastic actions to enforce laws and policies on gender equality and achieve sustainable development goals, with a focus on rural areas.
Over 30 million poor households and other welfare beneficiaries have accessed soft loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) as of the end of August 2017, according to the VBSP.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue requested carefully reviewing poor districts in accordance with Resolution 30a while chairing a meeting in Hanoi on August 1.
Poverty rate in the Central Highlands dropped by 2.8 percent annually over the past 15 years, the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands said on June 30 .
Vietnam has achieved targets on sustainable poverty reduction in disadvantaged areas thanks partly to a project funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ireland Embassy.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hosted an international forum in Hanoi on November 21 to promote new rural development in Vietnam for 2016-2020.
The National Assembly heard explanations presented by two ministers on policies for ethnic minorities and mountainous regions, and the environmental impacts of power plants, among other issues.
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai is stepping up poverty reduction efforts in the last quarter so as to cut the household poverty rate by 2.6 percent this year.
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has launched a national movement to join hands to support the poor, targeting an annual average decrease of up to 1.5 percent of the poor household rate in the 2016-2020 period.
A text-message campaign will be activated from October 15 to November 30 to raise fund for the poor, especially those from extremely difficult areas and ethnic minority groups.
The PM has approved the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in 2016-2020, which aims to cut the rate of poverty among households nationwide by 1- 1.5 percent each year.
Ministries, ministerial-level and centrally-run agencies, as well as localities, economic groups, and State-owned enterprises have been requested to build a socio-economic development plan for 2017.
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