Procedures for annual recognition of households escaping poverty and near poverty in Vietnam

Procedures for annual recognition of households escaping poverty and near poverty in Vietnam

Procedures for annual recognition of households escaping poverty or near poverty in Vietnam are carried out according to the guidance in Decision 406/QD-LDTBXH in 2023, specifically as follows:

(i) Step 1: The household has a written request for recognition of households escaping from poverty or households escaping from near poverty, made according to Form No. 04 in the Appendix issued together with Decision 24/2021/QD-TTg, and sends it to the People's Committee of the commune.

(ii) Step 2: The chairperson of the commune-level People's Committee directs the commune-level Review Steering Committee to preside over and coordinate with the village head and reviewers to collect household information, score, summarize, and classify households.

(iii) Step 3: Hold a meeting of the people to agree on the review results.

- Members of the meeting: Steering Committee to review commune level, civil servants tasked with poverty reduction at commune level, village head (chairing the meeting), Secretary of the Village Party Committee, mass organizations, reviewers, and a number of representatives of reviewed households and other households; invite representatives of the Vietnam Fatherland Front at commune level to supervise.

- Contents of the meeting: collecting the opinions of at least 50% of the total number of people attending the meeting on the evaluation results and scoring for the reviewed households. If the consensus is less than 50%, review at Step 2 and hold a meeting at Step 3.

- The meeting results are made into 02 minutes, signed by the chairperson, secretary of the meeting, and representatives of households (01 copy is kept in the village, 01 copy is sent to the Steering Committee for review at commune level).

(iv) Step 4: Listing, public announcement

- Publicly post up the results of the review of households escaping from poverty and households escaping from near poverty at cultural houses or village community activity houses and offices of commune-level People's Committees; notify via commune-level radio station (if any) within 03 working days.

- During the time of listing and public announcement, in case of complaints from people, the Commune Review Steering Committee shall organize a review of the review results in accordance with the review process within 07 working days from the date of receipt of the complaint; publicly post the inspection results at the cultural house or village community house and the headquarters of the commune-level People's Committee within 3 working days.

- At the end of the time limit for public listing and review (if any), the Commune Review Steering Committee shall summarize and report to the Chairman of the Commune People's Committee on the list of households escaping poverty and households escaping near poverty (after review).

(v) Step 5: Recognition of households escaping poverty and households escaping near poverty

Chairman of the commune-level People's Committee shall issue a decision on recognition of the list of households escaping poverty and households escaping from near poverty using Form No. 02 in the Appendix issued together with Decision 24/2021/QD-TTg. In cases of ineligibility as prescribed, the chairperson of the commune-level People's Committee shall reply in writing and clearly state the reason.

Mai Thanh Loi

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