PROJECT: Support to multi-dimensional poverty

reduction in urban areas

Name of the Line Agency - National Partner: Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee
Name of the national agency proposing the project: Ho Chi Minh city Steering Committee for
Poverty Reduction and Increase of Better-off Households
Name of the UN Agency supporting the project: United Nations Development Programme

Project Summary:
In recognition of the importance of the urban poverty and multi-dimensional poverty approach
on poverty reduction, UNDP has cooperated with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city to develop and
implement the Project “Support to in-depth assessment of urban povert in Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh city” for the period 2008-2011 (or the Project “Urban poverty”). This project and other
related studies have provided the first in-depth and comprehensive information on urban poverty
reality to contribute to formulation and implementation of poverty reduction.

In continuation of the achievements obtained in the Project “Urban Poverty”, the proposed
Project “Support to reduction of multi-dimensional poverty in urban settings'' for the period 2012-
2016 will continue to support Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi in (i) monitoring/evaluating multi-
dimensional poverty in urban areas and (ii) building capacity of these cities in development and
implementation of creative and appropriate policies to reduce urban poverty multi-dimensionally,
especially poverty of the vulnerable group, such as migrants or laborers in informal sector.
Through this Project, awareness of policy makers in local and central levels of urban multi-
dimensional poverty issues will be improved. Domestic and international experience in and
knowledge of reduction of urban multi-dimensional poverty will be shared and discussed at
national level, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh and with other cities and municipal areas of Vietnam so
that creative and appropriate measures will be identified and implemented to monitor and
reduce urban poverty in particular and poverty in general at national level to implement
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Vietnam Socio-economic Development Strategy
and Plan.
Date:
60 months from 2012 to 2016
Geographic coverage
Ho Chi Minh city with the possibility of multiplication in Hanoi and some other related
provinces/cities
Focus area
Poverty Reduction

Finance, Executing and Implementing Agency

Project Number Funding Executing Agency Implementing Agency

68983 2,200,000 USD UNDP, Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh city

city People’s Steering Committee
Committee for Poverty Reduction
and Increase of
Better-off Households

Key results:
- By 2016, Key national institutions formulate and monitor people-centred, ‘green’ and
evidence-based socio-economic development policies to ensure the quality of growth in
Viet Nam as a middle-income country
- A multi-dimensional and human development approach is adopted in the poverty
reduction components of socio-economic development plans at national and sub-
national level to effectively address chronic and emerging forms of poverty
- Strengthened capacities of data producers, providers and users for socio-economic
development planning and monitoring .

Link bài: https://www.vn.undp.org/content/vietnam/en/home/operations/projects/

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