Adoption of the National Strategy to Combat Poverty

Portugal has set up a new strategy to combat poverty through the development of a multidimensional, integrated, medium- and long-term approach. This reform is further complemented by specific investments, such as actions in the most deprived metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto. It provides a framework to allow for interventions targeting specific groups, from children to the elderly, including the most vulnerable groups.

For instance, it sets out the conditions for the development and implementation of policies focusing on social exclusion and poverty at the local level. It also creates a single monitoring framework for poverty related indicators. The strategy includes among its objectives the reduction of the poverty rate to 10% of the population by 2030, which implies a reduction by 660,000 adults and 170,000 children as well as reducing by 230,000 the number of working people in poverty. The reform was published by the end of 2021.

More information can be found on the webpage of the government here, as well as on the webpage of the Office of Strategy and Planning here.