Letter of Collaboration between VWU and UN Women Viet Nam signed
Accordingly, the two parties will work together to contribute to ending gender-based violence against women; economically empowering women, including ethnic minority women, women with disabilities, women living with HIV/AIDS, female survivors of gender-based violence and other vulnerable women groups; and reducing disaster risks and improving climate change adaptation in a gender-responsive manner. To achieve the goals, in parallel with direct interventions for the women beneficiaries, the two sides will focus on strengthening the capacity of the VWU staff in the respective cooperation fields.
Over the past 15 years, the VWU has had cooperation with UN Women (known as UNIFEM previously) to promote gender equality and empower women through a number of joint activities and projects on increasing women’s participation in leadership and management, preventing violence against women and girls, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, SDGs consultation and review, nutrition and food security and etc. The Letter to Collaboration marks the improvement of the two parties’ cooperation into a strategic partnership.
