The tangerine-growing model for increasing family’s
income in Dinh Quan district
In addition, the projects under the National Target
Program on Poverty Reduction continue to promote their effectiveness in the
implementation of policies to reduce poverty for people. Notably, the project to
replicate the poverty reduction model has built and approved of 18 projects to
replicate the poverty reduction model in 72 communes with 802 households, who
are poor, near-poor and have just escaped from poverty and who are involved in
projects with a total budget of VND13 billion. The projects to encourage
farming, help with production, and develop agricultural jobs for poor households
have been carried out in 9 districts and Long Khanh town with a total budget of
nearly VND4.7 billion from the provincial budget, which is spent on the
following contents: organizing 40 training classes to provide techniques on how
to take care of on plants and animals with 1,200 participants; assisting 414
households to join the project on plants, seeds, materials, animal feeds, and so
on. Also, the communications project on how to reduce poverty has organized 90
propaganda classes for 2,700 arrivals of officials in charge of poverty
reduction in communes and districts and poor and near-poor households; launched
and integrated vocational training for the poor with the vocational training
programs for rural laborers; and so on.
Particularly, the number of poor households in the
province has decreased by 0.32%, exceeding the rate of approximately 2,502 poor
households set in the resolution, the number of near-poor households by 0.48%,
equivalent to about 2,298 near-poor households according to the poverty line in
the provincial People’s Council’s Resolution no. 126/2014/NQ-HDND dated
September 26, 2014.
Functional agencies offered presents to the poor in
a charity event
The goal in 2019 is to strive to achieve the target
of reducing poor households by 0.3%, equivalent to 2,400 households; and
near-poor households by 0.5%, equivalent to 4,000 households. A lot of solutions
have been put forward by the Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs sector to
continue carrying out Dong Nai province’s poverty reduction program in of
2015-2020 period towards cutting down the poverty rate with multi-dimensional
criteria under the State Prime Minister’s Decision no. 59/2015/QD-TTg dated
November 19, 2015 on the introduction of the multi-dimensional poverty line
applicable to the period of 2016-2020; enhance the dissemination of propaganda
information to raise the poor households’ awareness and determination to attempt
to escape poverty and become well-off households in poverty areas; improve the
capacity and responsibility of the officials in charge of poverty reduction;
uphold the sense of responsibility for organizing the programs of levels of
authorities, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, and unions and call for the
community’s participation; strengthen superiors’ inspection, supervision and
evaluation towards subordinates in the implementation of the Program;
coordination with the supervision and evaluation of agencies elected by people,
and socio-political organizations.
It is necessary to mobilize all resources to ensure
a sufficient supply of capital to carry out the policies, projects, and
activities within the Program; create a open and strongly-decentralized
mechanism to synchronously implement projects, policies, and direct support
activities for the households that are poor, near-poor, and have just escaped
from poverty and poor regions through such policies as preferential credit; help
with health, education, and electricity costs; supply clean water and protect
the environment; encourage agricultural development and production; replicate
poverty reduction models; perform communications on poverty reduction; help to
improve the capacity for reducing poverty, and monitoring and assess the
program; integrate other socio-economic programs with poverty reduction programs
such as housing assistance for poor households, information assistance,
vocational training, job creation, and so on; implement the policies for
households that have escaped poverty to enjoy an additional two years for 4
policies such as farming promotion, vocational training, health care, and
education for poor households. Particularly, the credit policy in the country
gives the assistance of an additional three years according to the State Prime
Minister’s Decision no. 28/2015/QD-TTg dated July 21, 2015 with the aim of
ensuring a sustainable escape from poverty.
Duy Minh (Phuong Vy)