Secretaria-Geral do Ministério do Trabalho, Solidariedade e Segurança Social

It was published today in Diário da República the National Strategy for Combating Poverty 2021-2030 (ENCP), implementing the objective set out in the Government’s programme of launching an instrument that allows for a cross-cutting and integrated articulation of public policies with a view to eradicating poverty.

This ENCP essentially reflects the work carried out by the Coordinating Committee appointed by Order No 10277/2020, gathering contributions from various entities and personalities with relevant backgrounds in the field of combating poverty and social exclusion, and considering proposals resulting from the public consultation promoted between 1 and 25 October 2021.

As part of the strategic challenge of reducing inequalities, the ENCP approach is based on a vision of poverty as a phenomenon that requires integrated action by the different sectoral areas in the field of public intervention, in close coordination with the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Among its objectives, the Strategy includes reducing the monetary poverty rate to 10% of the population, lifting 660,000 people out of poverty and halving the child poverty rate, lifting 170,000 children out of poverty, as well as halving the in-work poverty rate and lifting 230,000 workers out of poverty.

Source: Government Portal