Chairman of the National Assembly's Social Committee: Focus on raising awareness and aspirations to escape poverty and get rich among the people

The National Assembly's supervisory delegation working in Tuong Duong district was led by comrade Nguyen Thuy Anh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Social Committee.

Accompanying the National Assembly's Supervisory Delegation, on the provincial side were members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Thai Thi An Chung - Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation and Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; along with leaders of a number of provincial departments, branches and sectors.

The working delegation of the National Assembly and the province directly supervised Yen Hoa commune and worked with Tuong Duong district and Yen Hoa commune on the implementation of three national target programs on new rural construction, sustainable poverty reduction in the 2021-2025 period, and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period.

The report of Tuong Duong district and Yen Hoa commune affirmed that, from the clear identification, the implementation of the three target programs is an important resource and driving force for the district and commune to successfully implement the targets set out in the Resolution of the Party Congress of Yen Hoa district and commune for the 2020-2025 term, including targets on growth rate, average income per capita, poverty rate, number of communes meeting new rural standards...; the district and commune have been methodical in leading and directing the implementation of the three programs.

From the district to the commune level, steering committees and supporting apparatuses were established at the district and grassroots levels; plans were developed to implement programs; and the need to implement projects including essential infrastructure works, support for agricultural and forestry production, and the elimination of temporary housing was determined, etc., as the basis and resources for implementing the programs.

Along with that, the locality focuses on information and propaganda work for cadres and people; associated with training skills and expertise for cadres in the political system to bring policies into life, especially improving capacity, skills in propaganda, mobilization and organization of implementation of each criterion and project under the three target programs.

Although there are still some difficulties, overall, the implemented programs have contributed to creating many positive changes in the socio-economy at each commune level and in the district as a whole.

The issue was noted by the National Assembly's Supervisory Delegation, through the programs, along with support from the program, the locality has mobilized people to participate in contributing resources to build traffic infrastructure; implemented a variety of sustainable livelihood models, such as planting raw material forests, growing raw material cassava, raising buffalo, cows, and pigs for goods; improving residential housing...

Vocational training and job creation are taken care of with the rate of trained workers and the number of laborers exported increasing every year. Conditions for education, health care, clean water, environmental sanitation, etc. are improved.

Through the implementation of three programs, the socio-economic conditions in the entire Tuong Duong district and Yen Hoa commune have been improved. The entire district has 4 communes meeting new rural standards; the average criteria is 10.8 criteria/commune.

The results of reviewing poor households according to the multidimensional poverty standard for the period 2021-2025, at the end of 2021, the whole district accounted for 39.18% and by the end of 2022 it was 34.3% (down 5.15%).

For Yen Hoa commune, the poverty rate at the end of 2021 was 29.56% and by the end of 2022 it decreased to 23.28% (down 6.28%/year). Traffic infrastructure continues to be invested with a total of more than 68 km in 2021, 2022 and the first 6 months of the year.

Many problems arise

In addition to the results, through the reflection of Tuong Duong district and Yen Hoa commune regarding some difficulties and shortcomings in implementing the three programs; the members of the monitoring team requested the locality to clarify many more issues.

These include objective and subjective reasons for slow disbursement of programs; sustainability and substance in program implementation, especially new rural construction and sustainable poverty reduction; and integrated implementation of programs.

Besides, there are some issues related to practical needs, but the support policies from the three programs have not mentioned; difficulties and shortages in health care, education, housing, employment, domestic water, etc.; effective economic models need to be replicated; difficulties in implementing income criteria and poverty reduction rate, etc.

Results of capital disbursement to implement programs in Tuong Duong district: Up to this point, the 2023 capital source for all three programs has not been disbursed.

In 2022 alone, investment capital for new rural construction only reached 14.8% and public service capital reached 2.9%; investment capital for development programs for ethnic minorities and mountainous areas only reached 9.11% and public service capital disbursed 4.58%; investment capital for sustainable poverty reduction was 7.66% and public service capital was 18.85%.

From the practical implementation of the three target programs and on the basis of the proposal of the monitoring delegation, Tuong Duong district and Yen Hoa commune proposed that the Central Government study and supplement the content of supporting forest allocation associated with forestry land allocation to grant land use right certificates, support models for developing non-timber forest products and medicinal herbs under the forest canopy; support seedlings for communities dependent on forests to improve their livelihoods...

The Central Government also needs to study a separate mechanism for new rural construction for ethnic minority and mountainous areas; adjust and increase the support level for new housing construction to 80 million VND/household; and repair to 40 million VND/household...

Focus on solving subjective difficulties of the locality

At the end of the working session, Comrade Nguyen Thuy Anh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Social Committee acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the Party Committee, the government and the entire political system, and the active participation of the people in implementing the target programs.

Sharing the socio-economic difficulties as well as the conditions for implementing the three target programs, comrade Nguyen Thuy Anh emphasized: Slow capital disbursement will lead to the risk of "losing" investment resources, missing investment and development opportunities in the area; therefore, Tuong Duong district and Yen Hoa commune, together with other establishments, need to study to resolve the subjective causes.

Focus on communication work, raising awareness and desire for change for the locality among cadres and civil servants and the desire of people to get rich and escape poverty, in order to create new changes in the next phase of program implementation.

Comrade Nguyen Thuy Anh also noted the recommendations and proposals of the locality to report to the National Assembly Standing Committee, the National Assembly supervision delegation and the Central Ministries and branches for resolution.