The Mekong Delta region aims to bring the rate of poor households to 4.5percent in 2015, or down by 1.2-1.3 percent year-on-year, according tothe Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region.
To that end, localities will carry out policies, programmes andprojects relating to poverty reduction simultaneously and effectively,considering poverty reduction an important task in socio-economicdevelopment.
They will combine the developmentof poverty reduction models with efforts to adapt to climate change,hold campaigns to encourage to the poor to work to rise out of poverty,and add the national goal programme on sustainable poverty reduction toothers, particularly the one relating to new-style rural area building.
In 2014, the national goal programme onsustainable poverty reduction provided the localities with over 302billion VND for the work.
The localities focusedon intensifying vocational training for poor people as well as helpingthem find jobs and develop production.
By theend of the year, the region’s poverty rate was reduced to 5.6-5.8percent, much lower than the country’s average level. At present, nineout of the 13 localities have the rate of below 5 percent, with SocTrang recording the highest decrease rate of 4.5 percent.-VNA
To that end, localities will carry out policies, programmes andprojects relating to poverty reduction simultaneously and effectively,considering poverty reduction an important task in socio-economicdevelopment.
They will combine the developmentof poverty reduction models with efforts to adapt to climate change,hold campaigns to encourage to the poor to work to rise out of poverty,and add the national goal programme on sustainable poverty reduction toothers, particularly the one relating to new-style rural area building.
In 2014, the national goal programme onsustainable poverty reduction provided the localities with over 302billion VND for the work.
The localities focusedon intensifying vocational training for poor people as well as helpingthem find jobs and develop production.
By theend of the year, the region’s poverty rate was reduced to 5.6-5.8percent, much lower than the country’s average level. At present, nineout of the 13 localities have the rate of below 5 percent, with SocTrang recording the highest decrease rate of 4.5 percent.-VNA
