United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (Vietnam)

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).