Resolution No. 76/2014/QH13 on the achievement of the sustainable poverty reduction goal by 2020

10 THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY No. 76/2014/QH13 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue nos 06-09/June 2014 THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness RESOLUTION On the achievement of the sustainable poverty reduction goal by 2020(*) THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Pursuant to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of V,,etnam; Pursuant to Law No. 05/2003/QH11 on Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly; Pursuant to the National Assemb~y's Resolution No. 47/2013/NQ-QH13 of June 20, 2013, on the 2014 Program on supervisory activities of the National Assembly; After examining the National Assembly Standing Committee's Report No. 660/BC UBTVQH13 of May 19, 2014, on results of the supervision of the policies and law on poverty reduction implemented during 2005 - 2012 and opinions of the NationalAssemb~y's deputies; RESOLVES: Articles 1. The NationalAssembly basically agrees with the National Assembly Standing Committee's report on supe1v ision results, limitations and causes of, and lessons from, the implementation of the policies and law on poverty reduction during 2005 - 2012. Achievements recorded in the work of poverty reduction have significantly contributed to the achievement of the objectives of economic growth, assurance of social security; improvement of living standards of people, especially those in deep-lying, remote and ethnic minority areas; strengthening of the national unity bloc; maintenance of the political security; consolidation of the people's confidence in the Paiiy and the State; and raising of Vietnam 's profile in the world. However, results of the implementation of the poverty reduction policies remain unsustainable; the rate of poor households in ethnic minority, deep-lying and remote areas and areas with difficult or extremely difficult socio-economic conditions remains high; the rich-poor gap tends to widen; the local psychology of reliance on state supports still exists; the integration of policies, balance of resources and management of the implementation of the pove1iy reduction policies remain unsatisfacto1y. Article 2. To achieve the sustainable poverty reduction goal by 2020, the Government will perfo1m the following tasks: 1. By 2015: a/ To achieve the pove1iy reduction goal under the National Assembly's Resolution No. 10/2011/QHl 3, and reduce the rate of poor households and that of poor districts nationwide to under 5% and under 30% respectively; bl To complete the review of the legal documents concerning the pove1iy reduction C-J Cong Bao Nos 655-656 (10/7/2014) © Vietnam Law and Legal F ornm Issue nos 06-09/June 2014 OFFICIAL GAZETTE 11 policies, restrncture and adjust these policies toward more focused policies and resources to redress overlapping; c/ To review and evaluate results of the implementation of the national target program on pove1ty reduction during 2011-2015 in confonnity with other national target programs as a ground for integration of national target programs during 2016-2020; di To elaborate a new poverty line by the multidimensional approaching method aimed to ensure the minimum living standards and access to basic social se1vices; to finalize the criteria for classification and the process of identification of poor subjects and localities. To smvey, classify and publicize the rate of poor households and households living just above the new poverty line; dd/ To effectively renew the mechanism of management, assumption of the prime responsibility, assignment of tasks, decentralization of powers and coordination in the work of pove1ty reduction. 2. During 2016-2020: al To achieve the pove1ty reduction goal under the five-year (2016-2020) National Assembly's Resolution, minimizing pove1ty relapse; bl To increase investment resources and balance state medium-te1m resources for pove1ty reduction policies and programs; to select policies to ensure prioritized allocation and rational and effective use of resources; to ensure effective integration of policies and resources. To promote the socio-economic development connection between the difficult areas and developed areas. To implement land, tax, credit and market support incentive policies suitable to regional characteristics in order to attract enterprises, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises, to invest in and develop production and business operation and infrastmcture facilities , provide job training and employment for local labor, increase the capacity of goods production to meet market demand in poor localities, localities with difficult conditions and localities inhabited by large number of ethnic minorities. To closely combine the poverty reduction policies with policies on socio-econoinic development and national defense and security maintenance; c/ To implement conditional suppo1t policies toward eligible subjects, localities and enjoyment duration aiming to increase the opp01tunity of benefiting from policies and encourage the active and positive paiticipation of the poor. To maintain and add some appropriate suppoli policies for households living just above the pove1ty line; d/To increase preferential credit loans for poor households and households living just above the pove1ty line; to adjust eligible subjects, lending amounts, interests and te1ms to be confo1mable with agricultural, industrial, foreshy and fi.she1y extension policies, tl1ll1Sfer sciences and technologies, develop and propagate pove1ty escape models based on local population communities; dd/ To supply more human resources for building infrastmcture, develop and improve quality of human resources for ethnic minority areas, poor districts, poor communes, border communes, fo1mer safety zone communes, communes, villages and mountainous villages with extremely difficult conditions, coastal and island ai·eas. To basically put an end to the situation that ethnic minority households have no residential land, provide production land or transfer jobs to at least 80% of poor ethnic minority households and households in communes, villages and mountainous villages with extremely difficult conditions and lacking production land; to combine job training with employment, increase incomes for poor ethnic minority households which not yet received production land suppo1t, and concmTently adopt policies to address the unplanned migration in some localities; ©Vietnam Law and Legal Fomm 12 OFFICIAL GAZETTE Issue nos 06-09/June 2014 el To raise the quality of the educational universalization and the rate of professionally trained laborers in mral and ethnic minority areas; to classify laborers and provide with rational and effective job training; to maintain policies on supp01t for pupils and students from poor households and households living just above the pove11y line; to increase the rate of pupils attending schools at the right age in localities with difficult and extremely difficult conditions; to develop boarding and semi-boarding general education schools for ethnic minority people of appropriate size; to ref01m and improve the effectiveness of the appointment-based emollment based on employment demands; g/ To ensure at least 90% of households living just above the pove1ty line paiticipating in health insurance; 70% of communes achieving the national health targets; more than 90% of commune-level health stations satisfying conditions for providing medical examination and treatment covered by health insurance; to adjust the strncture of investment in health cai·e and the health insurance policies in order to provide greater access to medical services and health care for poor people and people living just above the pove1ty line; h/ To enhance the state management; to complete the management mechanism, identify focal points to assume the prime responsibility and fully decentralize tasks and powers among local administrations; to refo1m administrative procedures and methods for local people and communities to participate in and access the pove1ty reduction policies; to step up the dissemination and education of policies in order to improve the people 's sense of self-reliance to escape pove1ty. 3. Once eve1y 2 yeai·s, the Government shall repo1t on results of the implementation of this Resolution to the National Assembly. Article 3. The People 's Councils at all levels shall, within the ambit of their tasks and powers, elaborate and promulgate policies, allocate resources and supervise the implementation of the pove1ty reduction policies in their localities. The People 's Committees at all levels shall take the full responsibility for implementing the policies and law on pove1ty reduction, devising solutions and models suitable to their localities; enhance the inspection, examination and handling of violations; promote democracy, publicity and transparency; raise the capacity of grassroots administrations and officers in charge of pove1ty reduction . Article 4. The Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations shall fuither promote their role as supervisors and act as the core in mobilizing the paiticipation of domestic and overseas organizations, enterprises, population community and individuals in the achievement of the sustainable pove1ty reduction goal. Article 5. The National Assembly Standing Committee, the Council of Ethnic Minorities, Committees of the National Assembly, National Assembly deputies ' delegations and deputies shall, within the ambit of tasks and powers, supervise the implementation of this Resolution . This Resolution was adopted by the XIIIth National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on June 24, 2014, at its 7th session. Chairman of the National Assembly NGUYEN SINH HUNG © Vietnam Law and Legal F ornm