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

The Council of Ministers approved on 12 October the Action Plan of the National Strategy to Combat Poverty 2022-2025, fulfilling the commitment made in the Government Programme, which defined the fight against inequalities as a strategic challenge.

A key planning tool that contributes to mitigating inequalities and reducing the number of people experiencing poverty or social exclusion, the Action Plan identifies a set of actions articulated around six intervention axes, 14 strategic objectives and more than 270 activities that contribute to achieving the objectives and targets identified in the National Strategy for Combating Poverty:

• Reducing poverty in children and young people and their families;
• promote the full integration of young adults into society and the systemic reduction of their risk of poverty;
• Boosting employment and skills as factors to eliminate poverty;
• Strengthen public social inclusion policies, promote and improve the integration and protection of disadvantaged people and groups;
• Ensure territorial cohesion and local development;
• Make the fight against poverty a national goal.

This Action Plan results from a participatory process of the various governmental areas and public entities with responsibility in the implementation of the strategy. The members of the Technical Commission that prepared the proposal for a National Strategy to Combat Poverty and representative bodies of civil society were also heard.

Source: Government Portal