Workshop spotlights gender issue in development plans for ethnic areas
A workshop on integrating gender issue in socio-economic development plans for ethnic minority, mountainous, and disadvantaged areas took place in the central city of Da Nang on May 23.
Participants of the workshop pose for a group photo (Source: Facebook Page of UN Women Vietnam)
Da Nang (VNA) – A workshop on integrating genderissue in socio-economic development plans for ethnic minority, mountainous, anddisadvantaged areas took place in the central city of Da Nang on May 23.
The event was co-organised by the United Nations Entity forGender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and Vietnam’s Committeefor Ethnic Minority Affairs with support from the Irish Aid. It gathered 30delegates who represented ethnic minority affairs departments from eight citiesand provinces nationwide.
Speaking at the workshop, Nguyen Thi Tu, head of thecommittee’s Department of Ethnic Minorities, said gender discrimination andinequality cause negative impacts on ethnic women and girls, affecting their accessto, participation in and benefit from policies on socio-economic growth intheir areas, and preventing them from capitalising on their potential.
As such, gender equality strategy must be an inseparablepart of the building of socio-economic development plans for ethnic minorityareas.
Vu Phuong Ly, an expert from the UN Women, said a specificmechanism is needed to monitor the investment of resources in boosting genderequality in these areas.
Financial sources to tackle gender issues in general remainlimited, becoming an obstacle for the implementation of empowerment projectstargeting ethnic women and girls, she noted.
Recommendations suggested at the two-day event will besubmitted to the board in charge of designing a project on socio-economicdevelopment in ethnic minority, mountainous, and disadvantaged areas for 2021 –2025.-VNA
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Participants of the workshop pose for a group photo (Source: Facebook Page of UN Women Vietnam) 
