Thursday, 15/11/2018 16:25 (GMT+7)
(CPV) - The Australian Government on November 15th-16th organizes a regional workshop in Hanoi to close its 18-month gender project of “Integrating gender and social inclusion into agricultural value-chain research in Vietnam”.
The project is another effort to implement the Australia Gender Equality Strategy in Vietnam during 2016 - 2020, applying a whole-of-government approach to improving the quality of life for women and girls in Vietnam.
Group photo (Source: Australian Embassy Hanoi)
Workshop participants include government officers and researchers from Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Laos and Cambodia, ethnic minority farmers from Moc Chau district and Dien Bien province, and ethnic minority university students.
Funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), it works with 10 ACIAR projects (with total investment of AUD17 million, about VND285 billion) focusing on value-chain in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
It is implemented by the International Potato Center and three partner organisations: Institute of Social Development Studies, Care International in Vietnam, and Oxfam in Vietnam.
Ending in December 2018, the project aims to address gendered social constraints and create opportunities to increase adoption of modern technologies for more sustainable intensification and enhance inclusive value-chain for ethnic minority women and men.
The project has conducted six field studies to understand how gender norms and relations influence farming practices and to identify gender-based opportunities and challenges for ethnic minority women and men farmers.
Apart from three gender trainings in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, and a gender-awareness workshop in Myanmar, it also created an evidence database for gender transformative research and development, enhanced capacity for researchers, and established a network and knowledge hub for agricultural and gender scientists in the region./.
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