Municipalities need to align their Integrated Development Plans and strengthen their support for Local War Rooms on Poverty in order to contribute towards reduction of poverty and unemployment, the North West Provincial Executive Council (Exco) resolved on Wednesday.
The War on Poverty (WoP) and Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) were designed to reduce poverty and unemployment in rural areas estimated at 32.46% that affects about 42.06% of young people who constitute the total unemployment population in the province.
The WoP Programme prioritises provision of basic rights interventions to reduce household poverty. The basket of services for graduating households out of poverty includes identification, health, education, social welfare, indigent support, household conditions, employment and improvement of basic income services.
The CRDP on the other hand is designed to address rural development through and reform, agrarian transformation and rural development.
Eighty-one thousand households in wards predominantly having farm workers, irrigation schemes and land reform projects in Ngaka Modiri Molema and Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati were targeted for profiling during the 2012/13 financial year. The two districts are among the 21 districts prioritised by cabinet for accelerated service delivery.
According to Census 2011, the poverty level in the North West province is estimated at 37% with 19% of households falling within the expenditure of R600, 00 and less per month. It is estimated that 60, 4% of children and 51% of youth live in conditions of poverty.
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