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THE PRIME
MINISTER
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THE SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No. 59/2015/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, November
19, 2015
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DECISION
PROMULGATING MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY LEVELS APPLICABLE
DURING 2016-2020
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on
Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the National Assembly's Resolution
No. 76/2014/QH13 of June 24, 2014, on accelerated achievement of the
sustainable poverty reduction goal by 2020;
In performance of the tasks assigned by the
Government in Resolution No. 79/NQ-CP of November 4, 2015, on the Government’s
October 2015 regular meeting;
At the proposal of the Minister of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs,
The Prime Minister promulgates multidimensional
poverty levels applicable during 2016-2020.
Article
1. Norms for
multidimensional poverty measuring applicable during 2016-2020
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a/ Poverty level: VND
700,000/person/month and VND 900,000/person/month in rural and urban areas,
respectively;
b/ Near-poverty level:
VND 1,000,000/person/month and VND 1,300,000/person/month in rural and urban
areas, respectively.
2. Norms on deprivation
of access to basic social services
a/ Basic social services (5
services): health; education; housing; clean water and sanitation; and
information;
b/ Indicators measuring
die level of deprivation of access to basic social services (10 indicators):
access to medical services; health insurance; education level of adults; school
attendance of children; housing quality; average housing area per capita;
residential water sources; hygienic latrines and toilets; telecom services; and
assets to serve information access.
Article 2. Levels of poor households, near-poor
households and medium households applicable during 2016-2020
1. Poor household
a/ In rural areas: is the
one that satisfies either of the two following norms:
- Having a monthly per
capita income of VND 700,000 or lower;
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b/ In urban areas: is the
one that satisfies either of the two following norms:
- Having a monthly per
capita income of VND 900,000 or lower;
- Having a monthly per
capita income of between over VND 900,000 and VND 1.300.000 and deprived of at
least 3 indicators measuring deprivation of access to basic social services.
2. Near-poor household
a/ In rural areas: is the
one that has a monthly per capita income of between over VND 700.000 and VND
1,000,000 and is deprived of less than 3 indicators measuring deprivation of
access to basic social services;
b/ In urban areas: is the
one that has a monthly per capita income of between over VND 900.000 and VND
1,300,000 and is deprived of less than 3 indicators measuring deprivation of
access to basic social services.
3. Medium household
a/ In rural areas: is the
one that has a monthly per capita income of between over VND 1.000. 000 and VND
1,500,000;
b/ In urban areas: is the
one that has a monthly per capita income of between over VND 1.300.000 and VND
1,950,000.
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1. The poverty levels
prescribed in Article 2 of this Decision shall serve as the basis for measuring
and monitoring deprivation of income and access to basic social services of
citizens; identifying beneficiaries of poverty reduction and social security
policies; and drawing up other socio-economic policies during 2016-2020.
2. Responsibilities of
ministries and sectors
a/ The Ministry of Labor,
War Invalids and Social Affairs
- To elaborate plans,
methods and tools to guide localities in surveying and identifying policy
beneficiaries at the beginning, middle and end of the period (on a biannual
basis).
- To summarize and report
to the National Assembly and the Government the rates of multidimensionally
poor and near-poor households at the beginning, middle and end of the period of
the whole country, provinces and cities;
- To develop a database
to manage poor and near-poor households nationwide for 2016-2020.
b/ The Ministry of
Planning and Investment
- To additionally collect
data on poverty dimension and multidimensional poverty index (MPI) for the
household living standard survey so as to monitor and evaluate the
multidimensional poverty status of the country and localities;
- Based on the results of
the annual household living standard survey, the Ministry of Planning and
Investment (the General Statistics Office of Vietnam) shall make public the
overall poverty rate (with the updated consumer price index - CPI), the rate of
households deprived of access to basic social services, and multidimensional
poverty index (MPI) as the basis for making orientations for regional economic
and sectoral development policies as well as poverty reduction and social
security policies;
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c/ The Ministry of
Finance
To assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
Social Affairs in, balancing budget resources for implementing poverty
reduction and social security policies when changing the method of poverty
measurement into the multidimensional approach.
d/ The Ministry of Health
- To study and implement
solutions to increase the people’s access to medical examination and treatment
services, health insurance coverage and the quality of medical examination and
treatment services;
- To coordinate with the
Ministry of Planning and Investment in studying, adding and updating indicators
measuring the health service access.
dd/ The Ministry of
Education and Training
- To study and implement
solutions to increase the school attendance rate of children at the appropriate
age at each educational level, reduce the rates of drop-outs and grade
repetition; and increase adult literacy rate;
- To coordinate with the
Ministry of Planning and Investment in adding and updating indicators measuring
the educational service access.
e/ The Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development
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- To coordinate with the
Ministry of Planning and Investment in adding and updating indicators measuring
the rural sanitation and clean water service access.
g/ The Ministry of
Construction
- To study and implement
solutions to increase poor and near-poor households’ access to housing and the
rate of people having quality houses with prescribed area;
- To coordinate with the
Ministry of Planning and Investment in adding and updating indicators measuring
the housing service access.
h/ The Ministry of
Information and Communications
- To study and implement
solutions to increase the people’s information access;
- To coordinate with the
Ministry of Planning and Investment in adding and updating indicators measuring
the information access.
i/ The Committee for
Ethnic Minorities Affairs shall coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War
Invalids and Social Affairs and related ministries in working out solutions to
sustainably reduce poverty for ethnic minority people;
k/ Related ministries and
sectors shall, based on the level of deprivation of access to basic social
services of the whole country and each locality, propose to the Government and
the Prime Minister solutions in specific and regular programs and policies so
as to increase the people’s access to basic social services, especially in
regions with low access rate.
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a/ To raise awareness of
authorities, sectors and people about the purpose and significance of the
change of the method of poverty measurement from one-dimensional to
multi-dimensional approach;
b/ To direct annual
surveys to identify and classify beneficiaries of poverty reduction policies;
c/ To direct the
development of a database for management of poor and near-poor households in
the 2016-2020 period in their localities;
d/ To study and implement
solutions to increase local people’s access to basic social services;
dd/ Based on their
practical conditions and capacity, provinces and centrally-run cities may add
dimensions/indicators of deprivation; adjust the measuring thresholds of
indicators of deprivation, fully apply the multidimensional poverty measuring
approach, raise the income norms higher than the national ones on the condition
that they shall balance their own local budgets in accordance with law to
support the poor and near-poor in their localities after such adjustment and
raising.
Article
4. Effect
1. This Decision takes
effect on January 5, 2016.
Articles 1 and 2 of this
Decision must apply from January 1, 2016.
2. Ministers, heads of
ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, and
chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees shall implement this
Decision.-
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PRIME MINISTER
Nguyen Tan Dung