- Social policy credit capital contributes to poverty reduction goals
- Learning, exchanging experiences, replicating poverty reduction models
- Thua Thien Hue promotes sending workers to work abroad, contributing to hunger eradication and poverty reduction
- Consulting on sending workers to work abroad under contracts associated with sustainable poverty reduction
Thua Thien Hue requests to increase information about overseas labor market to ethnic minority and poor workers
Realizing the importance of mountainous areas and ethnic minorities in the overall development of the province, in recent years, Thua Thien Hue province has implemented many policies and projects aiming at sustainable poverty reduction, socio-economic development, and improving the lives of people in all aspects. However, in the process of implementing programs and projects on production, scientific and technical training, vocational training, job creation, etc., there are still many difficulties and obstacles, so the efficiency is not high, leading to a high rate of poor households in mountainous ethnic minority areas, especially in A Luoi and Nam Dong.
Mr. Ho Van Ngum, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of A Luoi district, said that in recent times, job creation in this locality has achieved some remarkable results, the number of workers working at domestic and foreign companies has increased every year, especially the sending of workers to work abroad is increasingly of interest to the younger generation. In 2022, the whole A Luoi district had 16 workers; in the first 10 months of 2023, 57 workers went to work abroad, mainly in Japan and Taiwan. The increasing number of workers, especially those from poor, near-poor households, and ethnic minority households, participating in working abroad has helped improve the income and life of themselves and their families.
However, labor and employment in A Luoi still face many difficulties and challenges. The number of workers looking for jobs and changing careers is large. Enterprises need to recruit workers but lack information. The situation of people waiting for jobs and jobs waiting for people still occurs. The number of workers going to work abroad has increased but is not commensurate with the local potential. These are issues that the Party Committee and the district government are paying close attention to.
According to experts, to ensure the improvement of the quality of life, it is necessary to first help people find jobs, through vocational training solutions associated with on-site job creation or sending workers to work abroad, to create stable income. This is a correct orientation and policy, especially in the context of current solutions for economic development models in the direction of agriculture associated with farming and livestock farming in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue facing difficulties in capital, land, technology, and product consumption markets. Therefore, one of the most appropriate and practical solutions to help people in mountainous ethnic minority areas escape poverty quickly and sustainably is to train to improve the quality of labor, associated with job creation, in which, sending workers to work abroad under contracts in labor markets with high income and stable jobs is considered the "shortest and most effective way" to help people escape poverty. Not only that, after returning home, these workers will have solid knowledge and skills, easily establish a career, and avoid falling back into poverty.
Consulting and recruiting workers to work abroad is an effective solution contributing to sustainable poverty reduction.
In the Sustainable Poverty Reduction Project for the period 2021 - 2025, Thua Thien Hue province has also determined that, in order to help reduce the rate of poor and near-poor households in the whole province to 2.0-2.2% by the end of 2025, in which the rate of poor households in ethnic minority areas decreases by over 3% each year (in A Luoi district alone, the average decrease is 7-9% each year), one of the proposed solutions is to send workers to work abroad under labor contracts. Accordingly, Thua Thien Hue strives for at least 5,000 workers from poor households, near-poor households, newly escaped poverty households, poor areas, and disadvantaged areas to be supported in successful job connections; at least 5,000 workers are supported in training; of which, about 4,000 workers go to work abroad under contracts (at least 70% of households with members working abroad will escape poverty). Support about 4,000 workers to participate in training courses to improve foreign language skills before going to work abroad. The total implementation budget for the period 2021 - 2025 is 9,440 billion VND.
Most recently, the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province has issued a Plan to promote the work of sending ethnic minority workers to work abroad under contracts in the province for the period of 2023 - 2025, aiming to solve employment, increase income, improve the lives and skills, and professional style of workers, contributing to sustainable poverty reduction, promoting socio-economic development of ethnic minority workers and the province.
According to the above plan, Thua Thien Hue province strives to have 100% of workers living in mountainous areas of working age, receiving advice and information about the overseas labor market; policies and guidelines for workers working abroad under contracts. The province also strives to have 100% of workers living in mountainous areas who have the need and meet all the prescribed conditions to work abroad by 2025. A Luoi district alone strives to send over 70 workers to work abroad every year.
In addition, Thua Thien Hue strives for 100% of grassroots cadres in mountainous areas to be trained and disseminated contents related to policies to support job creation, preferential credit for job creation, policies to support workers going to work abroad, etc.
The scope of implementation is in mountainous districts and communes in Thua Thien Hue province, focusing on A Luoi district. The subjects are workers who want to work abroad, are ethnic minorities; people from poor households, households that have just escaped poverty, near-poor households; relatives of people with meritorious services to the revolution; people from households whose agricultural land has been recovered according to the provisions of law.
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