Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front works in Nghe An

On the afternoon of July 24, in Cua Lo town, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front held a conference to exchange experiences on Front work with two topics related to the mobilization of funds to build Great Unity houses for poor households and creative contents in Front work in the new period.

Attending the conference were comrade Nguyen Huu Dung - Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and representatives of leaders and experts of the Central Committees and Office of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; representatives of provincial departments, branches and Cua Lo town.

Conference scene. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Improve the operational efficiency of the Fatherland Front at all levels
At the conference, the representative of the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of Nghe An province presented a number of outstanding results on innovative contents, aiming to improve the effectiveness of the activities of the Fatherland Front at all levels in Nghe An province.

Accordingly, with the motto "Front of action, towards the grassroots, reaching out to the people", the Provincial Fatherland Front has deployed many practical and effective patriotic emulation campaigns and movements. From there, the strength of the great national unity bloc has been promoted, attracting the active participation of the whole society.

In just 9 months, the Fatherland Front at all levels in Nghe An province has launched 3 major campaigns, reaching 253 billion VND, namely: "Tet for the poor Canh Ty" program; Housing improvement program for poor households and the Campaign to support Covid-19 prevention and control. The Covid-19 prevention and control campaign alone raised nearly 75 billion VND, ranking 3rd in the country.

Comrade Le Van Ngoc - Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee shared experiences in mobilizing funds to build Great Solidarity houses for poor households in Nghe An. Photo: Thanh Quynh

In particular, while waiting for support from the Government, the Provincial Fatherland Front has proactively and quickly changed the form of calling for and mobilizing support for people directly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; has called for and mobilized over 282 tons of rice to promptly give to more than 28,000 people.

Regarding ethnic and religious work, the Provincial Fatherland Front has coordinated and unified the propaganda, mobilization and rallying program.Building a great national unity bloc among Catholic and Buddhist compatriots; creating close, friendly relationships with bishops, priests, dignitaries, officials, and religious practitioners...

Besides, the activities of social supervision and criticism, and contributions to Party and government building of the Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels have become increasingly in-depth and practical, bringing about clear results in the whole society.

Strengthening innovation in operating methods

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Huu Dung - Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front highly appreciated the efforts to innovate in the work of consolidating the organization and improving the operation methods of the Fatherland Front Committees at all levels in Nghe An province. In particular, the work of calling for and mobilizing support to improve housing for poor households in the province is outstanding.

Comrade Nguyen Huu Dung - Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Quynh

The Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front emphasized that although the locality still faces many economic difficulties, has a large population and incomplete infrastructure, in just a short time, Nghe An province has made many breakthroughs in calling and mobilizing to serve social security work.

With the mobilized amount of over 104.34 billion VND, it supported the construction of 1,975 new Great Solidarity houses. This result exceeded the plan, reaching nearly 50% of the budget and 80% of the number of newly built houses in the entire period of 2014 - 2019.

In the coming time, he hopes that the Fatherland Front at all levels of the province will continue to affirm its role in motivating and encouraging people of all walks of life to successfully carry out the tasks of socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security of the province. At the same time, it will create new premises and motivation to compete for many outstanding achievements to welcome the Party Congresses at all levels towards the 13th National Congress of the Party, 990 years of the name Nghe An, 90 years of the Traditional Day of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province spoke at the conference. Photo: Thanh Quynh

8 lessons learned through implementing solutions to innovate content and methods of mobilizing and supporting the construction of Great Solidarity houses for poor households in the province:

1.Review and grasp the situation of poor and near-poor households, housing status and housing improvement needs of poor households to develop a roadmap and plan to mobilize and call for support.

2.Take advantage of the regular and close guidance of the Party Committee, actively coordinate with the government and member organizations in organizing implementation. In particular, focus on promoting the role of businesses and religions in social security work.

3.Promote and diversify propaganda forms, focusing on combining traditional forms with modern forms (social networks) and using visual data (profiles) to call for and mobilize.

4.Regularly maintain and nurture good relationships with "traditional" and "strategic" philanthropists through visits, congratulations, and information sharing, thereby calling for and mobilizing support.

5.Strengthen and proactively coordinate with all levels, sectors and focal agencies in calling and mobilizing.

6.Localities must maximize their internal resources, combined with appropriate strategies and tactics to call on and mobilize businesses and philanthropists to share and join hands in support.

7.Cadres of the Fatherland Front at all levels must be dedicated, thoughtful, creative, hard-working, and patient in the mobilization process; and must be objective and democratic in distributing and allocating the number of houses and support money to localities.

8.Implement well the reporting regime on housing construction results after support to foster trust in sponsors.