Engendering the Millennium Development Goals

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Engendering the Millennium Development Goals

• Vietnams Experience

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Presentation overview

• Role of National Committee for the Advancement of
  Women (NCFAW)
• National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in
  Vietnam
• Engendering the development goals The
  CPRGS (Vietnam PRSP)
• Some challenges

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National machinery

• NCFAW
• An sector-wide committee for the advancement of
  women.
• Comprised of 18 members who are vice ministers
  and equivalent of central agencies and mass
  organizations.
• Regional CFAWs as a mechanism to institutionalize
  gender issues at the grassroots level

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National strategy

• National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in
  Vietnam by 2010
• Approved by the Prime Minister in Jan 2002
• Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women by
  2005
• To guide the implementation of the Strategy in
  the first five years

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Engendering the development goals

• Vietnam Development Goals (VDGs)
• MDGs tailored to Vietnams own conditions
• Emphasis placed on universalising education and
  ensuring gender equality and womens empowerment
• In most cases, VDGs go further than MDGs,
  particularly in the area of gender equality

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Engendering the development goalsCase study
CPRGS

• Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth
  Strategy
• approved by the Prime Minister in May 2002
• incorporates the Vietnam Development Goals
• draws together exisiting national strategies and
  sector plans into a concrete road map for
  development

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Engendering the development goals Case study
CPRGS

• A participative and collaborative drafting
  process involving
• 17 ministeries/agencies, including NCFAW and VWU
• consultations with representatives from many
  local organizations and regional groups.
• input from World Bank, UNDP and other donors

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Engendering the development goals Case study
CPRGS

• In terms of gender integration, it can be said
  that CPRGS is the best policy document that is
  not prepared mainly by VWU or NCFAW.
• Vietnams commitment to gender equality under the
  CPRGS is being used as a model for the region

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Some challenges

• Enforcement of targets
• Lack of capacity
• need for training on how to implement strategies,
  eg gender mainstreaming
• Monitoring
• lack of sex-disaggregated data
• national data masks regional disparities