Luanda – At 6.076 million citizens across the country received assistance in 2021, under the Integrated Programme for Local Development and Fight Against Poverty (PIDLCP).
Data indicate that since the implementation of the programme, between 2018 and 2021, 16.4 million people were assisted.
For the overall budget and financial execution, the Government spent 39.16 billion kwanzas, corresponding to 72 percent of the total cost of the approved actions for the past year, the director of the Technical Unit to Combat Poverty, Miguel Pereira, said Tuesday in Luanda.
Taking stock of the activity performed in 2021, Miguel Pereira put at 4, 253 the number of the actions executed and completed, corresponding to 61 percent of the 6,964 actions approved.
Until December 2021, 1,805 actions were still in progress.
The PIDLCP, as multi-sector, aggregates a set of actions that impact communities and during the year 2021, 844 social facilities were built or rehabilitated to contribute to the improvement of the population's quality of life.
In general, in 2021, the PIDLCP recorded an average of 71.68 percent, which represents a positive scenario of actions, in the 11 areas of intervention.
In particular, the area with the greatest intervention in terms of execution was agriculture, livestock, fisheries, hydraulics and engineering, whose compliance rates were 83.38 percent, followed by primary health care and rural infrastructure, whose rates fixed at 88.14 and 49.95 percent.
The programme is financed general budget in the source of special consigned resources and a monthly dissipation in each province of twenty-five million with an additional three million for school meals, since September 2021.
According to the official, the Programme for Local Development and Combating Poverty has proved to be a great instrument of administrative and financial decentralization, with immediate results in reducing extreme poverty in the country
