A/HRC/26/15 implementation of various affirmative actions, including the merger of Progressing Programme and the Community Technology centres, calling the resulting project “Progress with Solidarity”, with the aim of taking more than 400,000 households out of extreme poverty, raise 1.5 million poor to the middle class and ensure 200,000 new families coverage with the Solidarity Card. 33. The country had had the privilege of being recognized at the end of 2013 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as one of the 20 countries which in 2012 had had significant success in fighting hunger and in complying with Millennium Development Goal 1. 34. As to the recommendations made by the delegations of Cuba and Colombia, the delegation reported that the health sector was currently undergoing reform and modernization, which resulted in the implementation of 2012 Plan, based on the lines of action set out in the National Development Strategy, the Millennium Development Goals, the 10-Year Health Plan, the National Multi-Year Plan for the Public Sector 2011–2014, the Strategic Health Agenda, international commitments and the strategic agenda of the National Health Council and the operational plans made by each branch of the institution. 35. The Plan’s strategies and interventions were aimed at meeting public health needs and focused mainly on: maternal mortality, infant mortality, vaccine preventable diseases, dengue, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and zoonoses. The Plan was based on strengthening primary health care, by ensuring effective immunization coverage levels and access to medicines for the population. Thirteen per cent of the 2012 budget for the Plan was earmarked for Haitian people, regardless of their immigration status, and covered services in the Dominican health centres. 36. The delegation referred to the increase in affiliations to the Social Security System and the Old Age, Disability and Survivors of the Contributory Insurance Scheme, together with the increase in the incorporation of workers from the informal sector in the Social Security System (by 122.7 per cent as of February 2013). 37. The delegation mentioned measures to ensure access of all children and adolescents to different public schools, without the presentation of an identity document, ensuring enrolment of foreign children regardless of their immigration status. It gave details on the National Literacy Plan “Quisqueya Aprende Contigo”, which aimed to teach reading and writing to all people over 15 years old under equal conditions, in order to bring the illiteracy rate among the young and adult population to zero in a period of two years. 38. Great progress had been achieved with the provision granting 4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to the annual budget of the Ministry of Education, at the request of Dominican society in 2012, in line with the General Education Act and the amendments thereto and in compliance with the 10-year plan for education previously cited during the 2009 UPR. It added that 0.5 per cent of GDP had been allocated to higher education. 39. The delegation reported that, following the adoption of resolution 01-14 of the National Council for Migration, the Government of the Dominican Republic would proceed to establishing a new visa for seasonal workers, in order to regularize their immigration status. 40. One of the mayor challenges that the State had to overcome was socioeconomic differences and it was doing so by guaranteeing stable economic and educational development and that want was reduced and delinquency and antisocial acts limited. 7