The Landscape of Gender Equity in Viet Nam: Bridging the Gaps
- 30 August, 2024
- ckcvietnam
Gender equity has been identified as a development strategy of Vietnam until 2023 targeting at significant improvement of women’s positions across social, economic and political sectors. Consequently, local organisations have increasing prioritized and integrated gender equity programes in their missions and approaches.
To project an overview on the landscape of practicing gender equality policies and programs at local organisations in Vietnam, CKC conducted a desk research led by Gender Expert – Ms. Poppy Folwer. In this research, the goals and programs of eleven (11) local organisations that service Vietnam across the areas of social development and research with an interest in gender development were analysed against the recommendations of five official reports for closing the gender gap in Vietnam.
Social development organisations in Vietnam are producing many effective and innovative approaches to integrating gender-sensitive development initiatives in their work, and are already addressing many of the report’s recommendations. However, there were still gaps in implementation in the following areas:
- Education: provide comprehensive SRH* education in schools, as well as programs to reduce stigma and gender discrimination in schools to support girls and women to pursue subjects and careers in STEM**.
- Gender data gap: focus initiatives on gender-disaggregated data to be able to better support gender-based program needs and effectively inform policies.
- Health and gender-based violence (GBV): develop awareness raising campaigns for GBV to support survivors. Also involve men in the conversation to help break stigma, and allow women to realise their rights to healthcare.
- Women’s leadership: championing women leaders in the community as role models to encourage greater economic, political, and educational participation by women and girls.
- Intersectionality: develop cross-cutting programs which address several intersecting issues, such as LGBTQ+, health or gender-disaggregated data on women in STEM.
Note:
*SRH: Sexual and Reproductive Health
**STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Writer & Illustrator: Poppy Fowler
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