Lai Chau (VNA) – A meeting took place in the northernmountainous province of Lai Chau on September 21 to review the localimplementation of the Canadian-funded project “Advancing Women’sEconomic Empowerment in Vietnam – AWEEV”.
The hybrid meeting was jointly organised by the Lai Chau provincial People’s Committee, the Canadian Embassy and CAREInternational in Vietnam.
The nearly-4.6-million-CAD (3.4 million USD) project is expected to assistmore than 2,600 ethnic minority women and men in six communes in Ha Giang’sQuang Binh district and three communes in Lai Chau’s Tam Duong district over acourse of four years.
In Lai Chau alone, it has invested more than 13 billion VND(548,639 USD) in the communes of Ban Bo, Then Sin, and Binh Lu. To date, nearly1.9 billion VND of the sum have been disbursed.
As heard at the meeting, in the first year, the projectfocuses on completing its implementation plan and related studies in theprovince. The second year will see the building of a sustainable tea productionmodel and non-tea livelihood models. The project will work onreducing gender burden and inequality regarding unpaid care and housework; and establishthree networks to support poor people, rural residents and ethnic minorities.
Brian Allemekinders, head of the cooperation department at the embassy, saidAWEEV aims to promote economic rights especially for poor women in rural and ethnicminority areas in Vietnam; and increase women's participation in paid economicactivities.
Le Kim Dung, head of the CARE International in Vietnam, saidCARE always listens to opinions of partners during the implementation processto integrate government and local resources, programmes and projects forfacilitating project activities.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Ha TrongHai said the local authorities are committed to implementing the project for the best results./.
The hybrid meeting was jointly organised by the Lai Chau provincial People’s Committee, the Canadian Embassy and CAREInternational in Vietnam.
The nearly-4.6-million-CAD (3.4 million USD) project is expected to assistmore than 2,600 ethnic minority women and men in six communes in Ha Giang’sQuang Binh district and three communes in Lai Chau’s Tam Duong district over acourse of four years.
In Lai Chau alone, it has invested more than 13 billion VND(548,639 USD) in the communes of Ban Bo, Then Sin, and Binh Lu. To date, nearly1.9 billion VND of the sum have been disbursed.
As heard at the meeting, in the first year, the projectfocuses on completing its implementation plan and related studies in theprovince. The second year will see the building of a sustainable tea productionmodel and non-tea livelihood models. The project will work onreducing gender burden and inequality regarding unpaid care and housework; and establishthree networks to support poor people, rural residents and ethnic minorities.
Brian Allemekinders, head of the cooperation department at the embassy, saidAWEEV aims to promote economic rights especially for poor women in rural and ethnicminority areas in Vietnam; and increase women's participation in paid economicactivities.
Le Kim Dung, head of the CARE International in Vietnam, saidCARE always listens to opinions of partners during the implementation processto integrate government and local resources, programmes and projects forfacilitating project activities.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Ha TrongHai said the local authorities are committed to implementing the project for the best results./.
VNA
