National platform promotes gender equality in economic empowerment
VOV.VN -National Platform “Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agribusiness to promote gender equality”aims to identify gender gaps, solution development, and policy recommendation to facilitate start-up female entrepreneurs in agribusiness.
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A national Platform “Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agribusiness to promote gender equality” was co-hosted by Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) on December 26.
In his speech, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue praised women’s role in economic development. He said amongst almost 500,000 businesses, more than 100,000 women’s enterprises which make an important contributions to economic stability of the country. 25% of women-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs) generated more than 1.63 million jobs and contributed VND32.4 trillion to the national revenue in 2013 (this approximately accounted for 3.9% of the country’s national revenue in 2013).
In Vietnam, the Government has promulgated numerous incentive policies to support female workers and enterprises of high proportion of female employees. However, the enforcement of these policies has faced a number of challenges and lacked necessary guidance. Women-led SMEs encounter various obstacles in production and business. The engagement of women in corporate governance remains limited and does not correspond with their potentials.
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At the platform, participants shared, exchanged knowledge, experience and dialogue between policy makers, economists and female entrepreneurs on challenges/obstacles, and needs of women in start-up business and development, discussed mechanisms and strategic orientations to support female entrepreneurs in agribusiness.
Mr Hue encouraged the integration of support to start-up business, enterprise development and agribusiness in VWU’s activities because this is “not only vital the economic development of Vietnam but also decisive to ensure real gender equality”.
Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, Chairwomen of VWU said,“VWU will be supporting women in starting up business, start-up business is one of important task of VWU.
The Plan “Female entrepreneur support for the period 2017 – 2027” which was submitted to the Government for approval will contribute to achieving the national target of increasing female entrepreneurs to 35% amongst 1 million enterprises by 2020.
