Updated date: 17/08/2023 12:30:46
DTO - That is the direction of comrade Le Quoc Phong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Steering Committee of the National Target Program on building a new rural area in association with the Restructuring Project. agricultural sector structure and sustainable poverty reduction in the province (abbreviated as the Provincial People's Committee) in a meeting with the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (LOL, Invalids and Social Affairs) on job placement and poverty reduction in the province in the period of 2021 - 2023, on the morning of August 17. Also attending were Mr. Nguyen Phuoc Thien - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of the Office of the Provincial Party Committee, the Office of the Provincial People's Committee, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Provincial Youth Union.
Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Viet Cong reports on job placement and poverty reduction in the province
In the period of 2021 - 2025, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs advises the Provincial People's Committee to issue plans and documents to direct and administer the field of labor and employment in accordance with reality. At the same time, coordinate with provincial departments, People's Committees of districts and cities to regularly collect information on employees, survey recruitment needs of enterprises; organize live, mobile and online job sessions to connect, advise and introduce jobs to employees.
From 2021 up to now, the province has 101.629 workers supported to create jobs (reaching 67% of the plan for the period 2021 - 2025); of which 4.452 employees went to work abroad for a definite term under contracts (reaching 59,3% of the plan).
In the work of sustainable poverty reduction, the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs closely cooperates with relevant units to promptly deploy poverty reduction policies to beneficiaries. Support poor and near-poor households to participate in poverty reduction models under projects and sub-projects of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2021-2025 period; introduced to 36.485 poor households, near-poor households, and newly escaped poor households to borrow loans to create livelihoods of more than 1.497 billion VND; opened 31 short-term vocational training classes for workers from poor households, near-poor households, households that have just escaped poverty and low-income workers...
As a result, from 2021 to now, the province has more than 10.957 households out of poverty, the size of poor households decreased by 57% and the average income of poor households increased by 1,3 times compared to 2020. Currently, the province has 9.701 poor households (billion VND). rate of 2,17%) and 14.442 near-poor households (rate of 3,23%) according to the multidimensional poverty line in the period of 2022 - 2025.
At the meeting, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs proposed the province to consider adding more loan sources to support employment and policy to support loan interest rates for households that have just escaped poverty. At the same time, the delegates focused on discussing solutions to solve jobs, stream career guidance for students to avoid wasting labor resources; propose models of livelihood generation associated with sustainable poverty reduction; promote the role of socio-political organizations participating in poverty reduction in the area….
Comrade Le Quoc Phong - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting
Speaking at the meeting, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Le Quoc Phong - Head of the Provincial Steering Committee praised the efforts of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs in advising the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Steering Committee to successfully implement the the task of creating jobs and reducing poverty sustainably in the province. In the coming time, Comrade Le Quoc Phong suggested that the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs focus on reviewing programs, schemes and plans of the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Committee, Provincial Steering Committee to implement tasks and targets on solving problems. employment and sustainable poverty reduction. Do a better job of analyzing the job market, assessing and classifying the quality of the province's labor in order to have effective consulting and job placement solutions. Improving the program, raising the quality of vocational training to meet market demand, training by order; expanding the foreign labor market in association with the supply of qualified and skilled labor sources.
For sustainable poverty reduction, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee asked the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to study and advise the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Steering Committee on new ways of doing things and effective models to create sustainable and stable livelihoods. income, improving the living standards of poor and near-poor households; strengthen coordination between departments, branches, socio-political organizations in the province to do well in socialization, mobilize all resources to join the Party committee and government in performing well in sustainable poverty reduction in the locality. …
L. Thanh
