UN Women in Viet Nam

About UN Women Viet Nam

The goal of UN Women’s presence in Viet Nam is to support national partners to implement their commitments and priorities for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women Viet Nam provides critical support in the following areas:

• Building capacity on gender equality and women’s empowerment for state management a on gender equality.
•  Raising woman’s awareness of CEDAW  and building government capacity to concretely implement the Convention.
• Empowering female migrant workers through gender sensitive migration policies and programmes.
• Gender mainstreaming in legislation review.
• Advocate for gender responsive HIV policy and programmes.
• Engaging men and boys in ending violence against women.
• Building capacity of grass root women to respond to climate change through Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

In addition to these programming areas, UN Women co-chairs the Gender Programme Coordination Group (Gender PCG) which focuses on joint programming of UN agencies and gender mainstreaming within the UN system. This group is co-chaired by the Vice Minister of Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social affairs (MOLISA). The aim of the Gender PCG is to support the implementation of gender-specific and gender mainstreaming One Plan Outputs, including joint development of an Annual Work Plan (AWP) and a Common Action Plan, with particular emphasis on maximizing synergies, coordinating and where possible jointly undertaking implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities.