12 April 2014
Cambodia has planned
to conduct the process for the identification of poor families in 2015 for five
urban areas in an effort to improve social services and reduce poverty in the
country. The Ministry of Planning in cooperation with GIZ organization of Germany
and Australian Aid will carry out the procedure of the program to identify
households in need in the urban areas following the identification of the
poorest households being completed.
Through the procedure,
the teams of the program have to do the fieldwork in the provinces of Siem
Reap, Rattanakiri, Tbaung Khmum and Preah Sihanouk, and Phnom Penh capital
city.
In the recent
consultative meeting, an official at the Ministry of Planning, said the poor
people are not only targeted to individuals living in the rural areas, but also
to those who live in the towns and cities as they migrated there to look for
job opportunity, adding that the percentage of migrants from the rural areas is
4 percent each year.
The identification of
the needy households in town areas is very important to enable them to receive
equity benefits from the economic development and more efficient social
services such as providing medical and financial support, he said.
For political
strategy, the royal government has made a great effort to improve social
service and reduce poverty in the country, he affirmed.
According to the 2013
figure, the poverty rate in Cambodia dropped remarkably to 19.5%, from 53.2% in
2004. Cambodia had thus achieved the Millennium Development Goal on poverty
reduction ahead of schedule set for 2015, and faster than the goal set by the
Royal Government of Cambodia for alleviating the poverty at a rate of at least
an annual 1%.
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