PM approves pro-poverty reduction agenda to 2010

VNGOVNet – The PM approved on February 5 the National Pro-Poverty Reduction Program 2006-2010 with a view to bringing down the proportion of poor households from 22% in 2005 to 10-11% in 2010, increasing their income by 1.45 times over 2005 and lifting half of the target communes in coastal areas and islands out of grave poverty.

February 08, 2007 11:11 AM GMT+7

The Program will benefit poor people, households, and communes with priority given to females, beneficiaries of social entitlement policies (including the old, the disabled and disadvantaged children) and ethnic minority people. The targets are to complete by 2010 infrastructure for difficult communes in coastal areas and islands; to provide 6 million poor households with access to preferential credit; to transfer farming and business techniques to 4.2 million poor people; to exempt or reduce vocational training fees for 150,000 poor people; to cover 100% poor people with State health insurance that will enable them to have medical examination and treatment paid for by the Health Insurance Fund; to exempt/reduce tuition and other school payments for 19 million poor students, including 9 million primary pupils; to help replace makeshift houses for 500,000 poor households; and to offer free legal advise to 98% poor people.

The Program encourages the public to engage in its implementation in a democratic, open and transparent manner. The State is involved in the program in terms of education and vocational training (tuition exemptions and reductions for trainees or training establishments), and healthcare costs (health insurance).

By Xuân Hoàng

(Source: Decision 20/2007/QĐ-TTg)