Gathering and building a great national unity bloc in the 4.0 era - Part 3: Comprehensively improving the quality of activities
Nghe An aims to basically eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in the province by the end of 2025 among 16,300 poor households and households with especially difficult housing conditions. The implementation of this social security program rich in humanity, shining with national sentiment and compatriotism in Nghe An has become one of the bright spots and good practices chosen by the Central Government to replicate and launch the emulation movement nationwide to join hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses.
PART 3:
Comprehensive improvement of operational quality
News Reporter Group • July 18, 2024
In the 2019 - 2024 term, the Fatherland Front Committees at all levels of Nghe An province have been active, proactive and creative in implementing campaigns, becoming a "place of trust", receiving more than 5,625 billion VND of socialized resources, the highest ever...
FLEXIBLE AND CREATIVE IN WORKING
Regarding Thanh Long - the "flood center" commune of Bich Hao in Thanh Chuong district, often referred to as "dry before the sun, flooded before the rain", we heard Ms. Tran Thi Hang - Chairwoman of the Women's Union, member of the Fatherland Front Committee of the commune share about the family situation of Mr. Le Van Ngo, in Long Giang hamlet: His wife, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huu, has a blood disease, is paralyzed and is being treated in the hospital, at the same time his daughter had a traffic accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
In the dire straits of Mr. Ngo's family, through the Facebook page of the Thanh Long Commune Fatherland Front Committee, on May 22, 2024, Ms. Hang posted information, calling on the community to join hands in support. Just 1 day later, the result was that nearly 900 kind-hearted people, not only in the commune, in the district but also all over the country, transferred money or directly in cash, supporting more than 160 million VND to help Mr. Ngo's family.
“Among hundreds of people who sent support, there were people who, despite their difficult circumstances, still shared 20,000 - 30,000 VND in support. Exploiting and using social networks, if done well, at the right time, with the right people, openly and transparently, will gather solidarity and strength of the whole society to join hands,” shared the female officer of the Women's Union and the Thanh Long Commune Front, who is also the account holder of the support source for Mr. Ngo's family.
It can be said that many social security support activities, such as medical examination and treatment support; learning support; support to overcome natural disasters, epidemics, fires; support during crop failures... are outstanding activities of the Front at all levels and member organizations in Nghe An province in recent years. There, not only is there responsibility, but also dynamism and flexibility in methods and approaches. Because if it is limited to the village and commune communities, the mobilized resources will only be for visiting and encouraging purposes. The good thing here is that the Front workers know how to spread information in the community through social networking applications, and it is the prestige of the Front organization and individuals to become a "bridge" to receive support.
In order to have resources to implement social security policies for the poor and near-poor, the Standing Committee of the Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province has innovated the way to mobilize social resources, creating a combined strength to have the most resources to carry out activities, especially social security work. In addition to propagating and mobilizing organizations and individuals to contribute to the Fund for the Poor, the annual "Tet for the Poor" program; the Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province innovates the gathering work such as: connecting with 182 volunteer groups (more than 78,000 members); periodically organizing meetings, gratitude, honoring charity groups, philanthropists every 2 years, to spread compassion and sharing in the community.
The Front at all levels in Nghe An has also innovated in the method of organization and implementation, from surveying the database of poor households, near-poor households and the need for support (housing or livelihood models, or vocational training, job creation...) in close contact with reality, on that basis digitizing documents from information to images to provide to sponsors and mobilizing the entire political system from the province to the grassroots level to participate.
Standing Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An Province Le Van Ngoc shared: All programs and mobilization contents must have clear plans, programs, and surveys, how much funding is needed, and what content is needed, to have a basis for calling and mobilizing. The viewpoint of calling and mobilizing must be based on maximizing internal resources and thoroughly utilizing external resources.
From the mobilized resources, a series of "banks" were established by the Front at all levels such as: "capital bank", "cow bank", "livestock seed bank", "agricultural tool bank"... to support livelihoods, develop livelihoods for poor and near-poor households, or take care of social security work on holidays and Tet... The support of mobilized funds is used publicly, transparently, clearly and especially with great attention to efficiency, creating more trust for supporting organizations and individuals. In Bai So village, Tam Quang commune (Tuong Duong), Mr. Hoang Van An's family has confidently grown from this approach of the Front.
In early 2022, Mr. An's family received 20 million VND in support to buy 2 calves.“cow bank” programof the Fatherland Front of Tuong Duong district. Next, he was guided by the Front officials of Tam Quang commune to build a barn, grow grass for livestock and closely monitored and reminded of monthly and quarterly care. From raising 2 calves at first, when the cows reached a certain weight and had a good price, Mr. An sold them and bought back the calves to continue raising; up to now, after 3 sales, he has earned a profit of more than 18 million VND and is still raising 2 cows. When having capital and knowledge of livestock farming, he and his wife are more confident, proactive in acquiring production knowledge, introducing new varieties of corn, peanuts, and rice, actively gardening vegetables, and raising poultry to improve their lives. "My family has now escaped poverty and is trying to escape near-poor households in 2024," Mr. Hoang Van An excitedly shared.
In Tam Quang commune, in addition to Mr. Hoang Van An's family, there are 24 poor and near-poor households supported with loans to raise commercial cows under the "cow bank" program of the district Front. According to Ms. Vi Thi Ngoc - Chairwoman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Tam Quang commune, the Front's method of doing things: "Each household is given a loan of 20 million VND without interest, after 3 years it is recovered to transfer to other households to borrow. Thanks to that, out of 25 households supported with livelihood models, after more than 2 years, 8 households have escaped poverty and 3 households have risen from poverty to near-poor households".
During the process of reviewing, evaluating and reviewing poor and near-poor households, through many forms, including social networks, the Tam Quang Commune Front also propagated and conveyed a clear message to the people: All support is extended and has a specific commitment. If any household does not make an effort, voluntarily rise up, "do it yourself, eat it yourself", all subsequent support sources will be cut off and not considered for inclusion in the list of poor and near-poor households. This public way of doing things, according to the Chairman of the Tam Quang Commune Fatherland Front Committee, is "to overcome the situation of people with land and labor conditions, but do not work to escape poverty and near-poverty, but rely on the support of the State and the community". From the results of that activity, in this mountainous border commune, each year, 30-35 poor households and 20-25 near-poor households are reduced.
In Quynh Luu district, through the program "Brave poor people" launched by the District Front, the poor have been transformed from objects to subjects of poverty reduction; that is, the poor must really participate, be proactive, and enthusiastically strive to escape poverty, not be objects for levels, sectors and society to take care of with free policies, creating passivity, a mentality of waiting and dependence. At the district level, a conference on "Sustainable poverty reduction solutions" was organized for poor households to present their plans and plans to escape poverty and register and commit to escape poverty with the companionship and support of the Fatherland Front. Based on the application for production plans, support needs and commitments to escape poverty of poor households, the District Front together with the commune provides support, such as: introducing vocational training combined with capital support to open production facilities; supporting interest-free loans for livestock farming or trading investment; supporting breeding animals;...
Along with the creative shift in supporting the poor, making the poor the main subjects of poverty reduction in localities, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee has developed a plan to support the livelihoods of the poor through a "cow bank" in the form of supporting the poor and near-poor with the cost of buying breeding animals, an average of 15 million VND per household, combined with the corresponding part of the district and commune levels to provide additional support and the people themselves also have a corresponding part by investing in building barns, putting in effort to raise animals to ensure the development of the animals. After 3 years, the poor and near-poor receiving support are responsible for returning 50% of the value of the support to have a source of support for other households.
The way to do that is to change the support for the poor from "free" to "conditional support", thereby gradually overcoming the mindset of waiting and relying on the poor, near-poor or wanting to be poor to enjoy the State's policies.
AFFIRMING THE CENTRAL ROLE OF UNITY AND GATHERING FORCES
The results achieved in social mobilization come from the trust of the community, organizations and individuals in each cadre and organization of the Front at all levels in the practical activities associated with the community life of the Front.
Right from the beginning of the 2019 - 2024 term, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province realized that each individual and organization of the Front at all levels must have a correct awareness of the necessity and urgency of changing the approach, thinking and working method completely new based on the digital technology platform, associated with the functions and tasks of the Front with the slogan of action being "Courage, proficiency, consensus, innovation".
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province also determined that if it cannot build a strong enough team, equal to the requirements of the task, always accompanying and catching up with the development trends of the times; if it does not thoroughly overcome the situation of ostentation, formality, and "disease" of administrativeization, it will be easy to lose its central role in uniting and gathering all social forces. That is, the Front must position itself in the political system, each Front cadre must also change and raise awareness to create "products" that are useful to the community, associated with the image of a Front cadre that is comprehensively built, synchronous in both quality and identity in the digital age.
A series of solutions were proposed to change the way of thinking and working of 16,808 members of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee at all levels and 3,804 Heads of the Front Working Committee in residential areas, such as choosing the color of ripe rice yellow (one of the main colors of the Vietnam Fatherland Front logo) as the uniform color of the provincial Front system, which is also the color to identify the image of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of Nghe An province on all documents and online platforms. To date, Nghe An is also the only unit that has built the image of Front officials through this identity.
In particular, for the first time in the country, Nghe An Front successfully organizedForum "Listening to the voice of the grassroots Front"between Comrade Do Van Chien - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front with the Front's staff at all levels of the province in person and online, with the participation of nearly 14,000 delegates in October 2023.
This is a practical activity of great significance to those working in the Front; an opportunity for the head of the Vietnam Fatherland Front system to meet, contact and listen to the thoughts, aspirations, opinions and recommendations of those working in the Front at the grassroots level; to exchange and disseminate the Party and State's viewpoints on the Front's work and forecast the situation related to the work of gathering the great national unity bloc; at the same time, to continue to inspire, motivate, arouse innovative and creative thinking to build the image of dedicated Front cadres in the hearts of the people, contributing to promoting the strength of the great national unity bloc.
The forum is also an opportunity for the grassroots Front staff to express their thoughts, aspirations, difficulties, obstacles and concerns in the Front work; a place to exchange experiences, operational skills, and raise awareness for the Front staff about the position, role and importance of the Front work in the new period. Thereby, continuing to consolidate and strengthen the strength of the great national unity bloc, the people's trust in the Party and the State, contributing to the continuous growth of the Front - the "common home" of all classes of people.
Highly appreciating the significance of the above forum, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien clearly stated his viewpoint, building a team of Front officials at all levels "closely attached to the people; devoted to be loved by the people; responsible to be loved by the people; disciplined to be respected by the people; dynamic to be relied on by the people".
Thoroughly grasping that spirit, entering the new term 2024-2029, comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province said: The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province determined that digital transformation continues to be a "breakthrough" solution to innovate content, methods and comprehensively improve the quality of the Front's activities in an effective and practical direction; clearly forming a "two-way" information channel in propaganda, mobilization, gathering and receiving, listening and responding to opinions and recommendations of all classes of people; focusing on building a "Self-governed, united, prosperous and happy" residential area associated with the Community Digital Technology Group built by the government; promoting the strength of the great national unity bloc; promoting campaigns and patriotic emulation movements; performing well the task of representing and protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of the people; promote democracy, conduct social supervision and criticism, prevent corruption, waste and negativity, participate in Party building, build a clean and strong government, contribute to making Nghe An a fairly developed province of the country by 2030, with a fast and sustainable economic development, imbued with the cultural identity of Vietnam and Nghe An.
(To be continued)
