THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 143/2001/QD-TTg
Hanoi, September 27, 2001
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM ON HUNGER ELIMINATION, POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE 2001-2005 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Prime Ministers Decision No. 71/2001/QD-TTg of May 4, 2001 on the national target programs in the 2001-2005 period;
At the proposals of the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Minister of Planning and Investment,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the national target program on hunger elimination, poverty alleviation and employment in the 2001-2005 period with the following contents:
I. THE PROGRAM’S OBJECTIVES
1. Overall objectives:
The national target program on hunger elimination, poverty alleviation and employment in the 2001-2005 period is a general inter-branch program in the country’s socio-economic development strategy, aiming to create favorable and suitable conditions for supporting the poor, poor households and poor communes in production development, income generation, access to social services, and hunger elimination and poverty alleviation; reduce the unemployment rate in urban areas and increase the use rate of working time in rural areas, make the labor structure compatible with the economic structure, create jobs for people who need jobs, and raise the quality of people’s life.
2. Specific objectives:
a/ Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation:
- To reduce the percentage of poor households (according to new criteria) to below 10%, or 1.5-2% per year on average (about 280,000 - 300,000 households/year); to stop relapse into chronic hunger;
- Poor communes have adequate essential infrastructures (small irrigation, schools, medical stations, public roads, electricity, daily-life water, markets).
b/ Job creation:
- To create jobs for 1.4-1.5 million people each year;
- To reduce the unemployment rate in urban areas to below 6% and increase the use rate of working time in rural areas to 80% by 2005.
II. THE PROGRAM’S CONTENTS
1. Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation: including the following policies and projects:
a/ Policies in support of the poor, poor households and poor communes, including supports in terms of health care, education, social security policies, agricultural land use tax exemption, supporting the poor regarding their housing, working tools and production land.
b/ Projects in direct support of hunger elimination and poverty alleviation, including:
- The group of general hunger elimination and poverty alleviation projects:
+ The credit project on lending capital to poor households for production and business development;
+ The project on guiding the poor in ways of earning a living, promoting agriculture, forestry and fishery;
+ The project on building hunger elimination and poverty alleviation models in special areas (coastal areas, highland and border areas, islands, former resistance bases, deep-lying areas in the Mekong River delta).
- The group of hunger elimination and poverty alleviation projects for poor communes (with 25% or more poor households and inadequate essential infrastructures), not covered by Program 135:
+ The project on building essential infrastructures in poor communes (small irrigation, schools, medical stations, civil roads, electricity, daily-life water, markets);
+ The project on supporting production and development of production and business lines in poor communes;
+ The project on training and fostering personnel for the hunger elimination and poverty alleviation work and officials for poor communes;
+ The project on stabilizing the life of migrants and building new economic zones in poor communes;
+ The project on sedentary farming and residence in poor communes.
2. Employment:
a/ Activities aiming to develop employment shall be carried out along three following directions:
- Socio-economic development for stabilizing jobs for people who have already had jobs and creating new jobs by concentrating efforts on directing a number of key economic development programs, thus creating more jobs;
- Stepping up the export of labor and experts;
- Enhancing the activities in direct support of job creation and labor market development.
b/ Activities in direct support of job creation and labor market development shall be carried out with the following projects:
- The project on organizing the lending of capital under mini-projects for job creation through the National Employment Support Fund;
- The project on raising the capacity of and modernizing the employment service centers;
- The project on labor survey and statistics and building a labor market information system;
- The project on training and fostering personnel for the work of labor and employment management.
III. IMPLEMENTATION DURATION
The national target program on hunger elimination, poverty alleviation and employment shall be implemented for 5 years (2001-2005).
IV. THE PROGRAM’S FINANCE
The program’s mobilized capital sources are estimated at about VND 22,580 billion, including the following sources:
a/ Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation:
About VND 16,245 billion is anticipated to be mobilized (not yet covering the international cooperation capital sources for hunger elimination and poverty alleviation), including the following capital sources:
- Central budget;
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