Vietnam is only country in Asia targeting multidimensional poverty reduction
VOV.VN - Vietnam has been recognised by the international community as a bright spot in poverty reduction and is the only country throughout Asia that is carrying out a multi-dimensional, inclusive, and sustainable poverty reduction programme.
Hunger eradication and poverty reduction represent the most important goals of the Vietnamese Party and State as part of the national construction process.
Recent years has seen the nation record remarkable achievements in hunger eradication and poverty reduction. Indeed, it is currently among the first 30 countries in the world and the first in Asia to apply a multi-dimensional poverty standard, ensuring a minimum standard of living and a lack of access to basic six-dimensional social services, including employment, health care, education, housing, domestic water and sanitation, and information.
The Prime Minister has therefore issued Resolution No. 90, adopting the implementation of the National Target Program for sustainable poverty reduction for the 2021 to 2025 period. Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Le Van Thanh said that this represents the second phase that the nation has carried out in the multidimensional poverty standard.
The 2021 to 2025 poverty reduction scheme has fundamentally changed its goals and requirements, with higher requirements than previous periods and a specific focus on the most difficult area of the country.
Accordingly, the total capital for implementing the programme is at least VND75,000 billion.
The National Assembly has also devised principles and solutions aimed at carrying out the scheme targeting poor districts and communes with special difficulties in coastal areas. In addition, support priorities are given to poor ethnic minority households, poor households whose members had contributed to the revolution, and children and women from poor households.
This year the country has passed halfway to sustainable poverty reduction for the 2021 to 2025 period.
Deputy Minister Thanh emphasized that after three years of implementing the programme, positive results have been achieved. As a result, the annual poverty reduction rate has met and exceeded the set targets.
There have been 10 extremely difficult communes in coastal areas and islands that have escaped poverty, whilst the lives of poor households, near-poor households, and poor core areas have significantly improved.
Deputy Minister Thanh attributed the result to the poverty reduction efforts of the entire political system, all levels, sectors, localities, and drastic changes in public awareness.
As a means of achieving the poverty reduction goal for the 2021 to 2025 period, with the rate of poor households according to the multidimensional poverty standard maintaining a reduction of 1.0% to 1.5% per year; the rate of poor ethnic minority households dropping by over 3.0% per year; 30% of poor districts, 30% of extremely difficult communes in coastal and island areas having escaped poverty and extreme difficulties; the rate of poor households in poor districts falling by 4% to 5% per year, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has continued to implement specific solutions.
In particular, the Ministry has gone ahead with implementing Directive No. 05 of the Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership for sustainable poverty reduction until 2030, fine-tuning poverty reduction mechanisms and policies, and promoting the internal strength of people and communities to escape poverty.
This also includes the full and timely implementation of current poverty reduction policies and the National Poverty Reduction Target Program for the 2021 to 2025 period.
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs also periodically reviews poor and near-poor households in 2024 according to the multidimensional poverty line for the 2021 to 2025 period and seeks to strengthen inspection and supervision of its implementation in order to achieve the set goals.
