(HBO) - The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee recently issued Plan No.24/KH-UBND dated February 27, 2020 on the implementation of the Sustainable Poverty Reduction Programme in the loclaity this year.
Living standard of locals in Nanh Nghe commune, Da Bac district, has
been improved thanks to a project giving them access to clean water.
The People’s Committee sets the target of reducing the
province’s poverty rate from 11.36 percent in 2019 to 8.56 percent by the end
of this year and providing all eligible poor households with access to soft
loans.
It will also make sure all the poor people and people from
ethnic minority groups living in disadvantaged areas are covered in health
insurance while poor students from local ethnic minority communities and policy
beneficiaries will receive tuition fee reduction and other financial supports.
The province plans to continue building toilets for poor and
near-poor households and policy beneficiaries and giving them clean water
access. It will also diversify ways to earn living and scale up effective
poverty reduction models to ensure at least 15 percent of needy households are lifted
from poverty every year.
To reach the goals, the provincial People’s Committee has
chalked out major tasks and solutions, including effective implementation of
projects within the national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction
for 2020 after funds are allocated.
The province will review the status of poor and near-poor
households in the final quarter of 2020 and integrate poverty reduction
projects with others from the national target programme on new-style rural
building for communes with high poverty rates.
It will accelerate communications work to raise public
awareness of the poverty reduction goals and motivate impoverished people to
take responsibility to lift themselves from the poverty.
It will also further mobilise various social resources for
local poverty alleviation and effective implement poverty reduction programmes
in terms of soft loans, education, healthcare, housing, clean water and hygiene
and information access./.
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