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Need for creating sustainable livelihoods for ethnic minorities
Need for creating sustainable livelihoods for ethnic minorities
Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on January 19
emphasised socio-economic infrastructure development, the building of value
chains and the transfer of technologies to create sustainable
livelihoods for ethnic
minority groups.
Addressing a meeting of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, Minh said it
is a must to keep a close watch on the situation in mountainous and ethnic
minority-inhabited areas, especially natural disasters and diseases there and
“security hotspots”.
He requested that the committee, relevant agencies and local authorities
effectively roll out the strategy on ethnic affairs in 2021-2030 with a vision
towards 2045, the master scheme and the national target programme on
socio-economic development in mountainous and ethnic minority-inhabited areas
in 2021-2030.
Deputy PM Minh also ordered promoting legal popularisation, expanding
international cooperation in ethnic affairs to attract foreign investment in
the regions, and continuing with people-to-people diplomacy.
He reiterated the importance of policies on ethnic affairs and affirmed that
over the past years, the Vietnamese Party and State
have issued many guidelines and policies on ethnic affairs, which have covered
all sectors and regions, helping to raise living standards of ethnic
minorities.
In his remarks, Chairman of the committee Hau A Lenh said the ethnic affairs
work has received the due attention of the Government and the Prime Minister,
the effective coordination between ministries, agencies and localities, and the
supervision of the National Assembly’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs.
In 2022, the committee will focus on building projects and policies, and step
the ethnic affairs work in the new situation, he said./.
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The Constitution of Vietnam recognizes the rights of ethnic minorities “to use their own language and writing, to preserve their ethnic identity and to nurture their fine customs, traditions and cultures”. Each person has “the right to self-identify ethnically, use their mother tongue and select language for communication”.
Livelihood and poverty reduction: shifting communities from their traditional nomadic lifestyles to one that is sedentary, forest land allocation, credit and subsidy.
For ethnic minorities, these programs can have real day-to-day consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted these results.
តhe country has made significant progress in reducing poverty and increasing access to education and healthcare over the last two decades។
This will lead to improved reading outcomes in national languages later in school, thus reducing one of the contributing factors of dropouts and is the priority in the new state curriculum until 2030.
We should create opportunities to upskill Vietnam’s ethnic minority youth so they can meet the requirements of today and tomorrow’s jobs.
To equip Vietnam’s youth with the skills needed for today and tomorrow’s jobs, more post-secondary education options, such as dedicated vocational education training institutions, need to be made available.
Vocational training, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship initiatives are key to giving ethnic minority youth more opportunities to participate in the economic and social growth of their provinces as [Vietnam’s] labour pool naturally shrinks due to ageing.
This issue of inclusivity in the economy is, once again, not just one of social justice and equity.
As the country slowly emerges from the economic fallout of Covid-19, tapping into Vietnam’s currently wasted human potential in its millions of marginalised ethnic minority members could prove critical in accelerating the country’s final push to the much-coveted high-income status.
It took stock of the many social security policies and programmes at the time and noted the mix of poverty reduction support and social protection services in the national targeted poverty reduction programme.
Welldone the State and Party of Vietnam!
As Viet Nam continues to move towards middle-income country status, making sure that no one is left behind becomes increasingly important.
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