Poverty reduction is now one of Việt Nam’s three national target programmes, with the 2021–2025 phase aiming for a one to 1.5 per cent annual reduction in multidimensional poverty and a fall of over 3 per cent for ethnic minority households.
The biotrade project, managed by the Swiss agency Helvetas, Center for Rural Economic Development, a local NGO, helped Mekong small businesses over the past eight years.
Phú Nhuận District has achieved the target of not having a single household under a HCM City poverty alleviation programme, according to its People’s Committee.
The HCM City People's Committee has submitted a proposal to provide an additional allocation of nearly VNĐ2.9 trillion (US$114 million) for the city’s sustainable poverty reduction programme for the 2021-25 period.
