Viet Nam Human Rights
More efforts needed for rural development, poverty reduction
23/4/22
The National Target Program for New Rural Development and the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2021-25 period have achieved several notable results, said Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on April 22 while chairing the online national conference on the issue.
He assessed that basic socio-economic infrastructure has been improved. Rural people’s living standards also improved.
Poverty reduction and social security continue to be ensured, enabling people to better access basic social services. Many social policies have come into life, playing their role of practical support for the disadvantaged.
Permanent Deputy PM Minh asked representatives at the conference to discuss and propose resolutions to continue conducting the programs so that avoid duplicating tasks, effectively using resources but not omitting in-need groups.
Speaking about the new rural program in the 2021-25 period, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said that by 2025, the whole country was targeted to have 80 percent of communes meeting new rural standards (currently 69.4 percent); 50 percent of district-level units meet new rural standards (currently 34.1 percent); 60 percent of villages and hamlets in extremely difficult communes are recognized as meeting new rural standards. As many as 17-19 provinces and cities in the whole country complete the task of building new rural areas, up from five.
The planned budget allocated for the program is at least VND 196.3 trillion (USD 8.5 billion).
Regarding the sustainable poverty reduction program, the Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung emphasized that the overall goal was to achieve sustainable poverty reduction, limit re-poverty and support poor households to access basic social services and improve their life quality.
The program sets annual targets that the rate of poor households will decrease by 1-1.5 percent, ethnic minority poor households by three percent, and households in poor districts by four to five percent. In the whole period, 30 percent of poor districts and 30 percent of communes with special difficulties will get out of poverty.
The planned total budget for the program is at least VND 75 trillion (USD 3.3 billion), of which the state budget plays a leading role, creating motivation for other resources to join the program, said Dung.
Representatives from Cao Bang, Yen Bai, Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Gia Lai and An Giang confirmed that the programs had an important meaning in the provinces’ socio-economic development.
It improved people's living standards, fundamentally changing the face of rural areas, especially in disadvantaged areas.
They believed that to reach the programs’ targets, they needed not only determination and effort but also creative ways of doing things.
They proposed the State soon have guidelines and specific criteria in the national target programs that are suitable to the specific conditions of different regions.
Appreciating enthusiastic and responsible contributions from localities, Permanent Deputy PM Minh emphasized the importance of timely guidelines for the national target programs.
He required that next month, the assigned ministries must urgently issue circulars and component projects.
"Component projects and sub-programs must be formulated and appraised in strict accordance with regulations on public investment and relevant laws," he said.
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Vietnam is one of the most populated Asian countries, with more than 90 million people calling the country home. With such a large population, poverty is unavoidable, especially in the rural parts of the country.
Despite the ongoing problem of poverty, rural parts of Vietnam have been able to decrease the amount of poverty with the implementation of certain policies and programs.
This is beneficial to alleviate poverty in Vietnam and its future since the lack of education is one of the most significant poverty risk factors.
The National Targeted Program for Poverty Reduction is a poverty-reduction initiative that uses an anthropological perspective to target ethnic minorities living in poverty-stricken rural areas.
This goal helps with encouraging the decrease in poverty because it sets higher expectations for the program.
Health insurance is one of NTPPR’s biggest priorities and this program provides free insurance for children that are age 6 and younger. This is especially beneficial for women who have to work to sustain their household incomes.
The NTTPR is beneficial to impoverished rural areas and helps the neediest population to alleviate poverty in Vietnam or its symptoms.
The World Bank is a global program that helps to support countries with low-interest rate loans. It works to improve the farming industry of rural Vietnam by encouraging low-income farmers with profit-making crops.
Despite the many economic challenges Vietnam has faced throughout the years, programs and initiatives like the HEPR, NTPPR and the World Bank have supported the growth of Vietnam’s economy by downsizing the amount of poverty in rural areas.
Culture is one of the four basic pillars of rural development in particular and the country's development in general.
Under the current conditions, "cultural and human factors must be promotedin all economic, political and social activities."
From the aspect of rural development, if cultural importance is not considered, it will be difficult to attain sustainable rural development.
Rural development is also agricultural development.
Rural development must aim to improve the living standards of the majority of the poor in rural areas, enable them to develop themselves
It needs the mobilization and distribution of resources and an equitable distribution of output in some appropriate policy frameworks at national and regional levels, including institutional and skill upgrades.
Improving the quality of material and spiritual life of rural residents is the target of rural development.
It can be said that rural development must ensure the principle of sustainable development, and be people-centered.
The principle of sustainability requires that rural development have economic growth, but the fruits of growth must be shared harmoniously and fairly for all members of the rural community.
The people-centered principle requires proper awareness of the subjective role of rural communities in the development process.
It can be said that the four pillars of modern rural development are clearly reflected in the new rural program goals that the Party and the State have pointed out.
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