The community communication team of Yen Son village (Quang Tan commune) conducts professional activities to mobilize people to eliminate backward customs.
Project 8 is one of 10 component projects under the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2025 period approved by the Prime Minister (Decision No. 1719/QD-TTg dated October 14, 2021), chaired by the Women's Union. The project is designed with 4 groups of key activities and 9 core indicators; of which, content number 3 is about ensuring the voice and substantive participation of women and children.
Based on the orientation of the Central and the province, the Women's Union at all levels of Quang Ninh province has had very specific and practical activities to concretize the content of No. 3 of the Project into local practice, aiming at the biggest goal of giving the most comprehensive attention and support to accompany women and girls in particularly difficult villages and communes. Thereby contributing to promoting gender equality in a sustainable, long-term and substantive way, by raising awareness, changing gender stereotypes, caring for material and spiritual life, protecting and caring for women and children, and realizing the goal of gender equality in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
As a member of the Provincial Council for Coordinating the Dissemination and Education of Law, the Provincial Women's Union has been proactive in directing, guiding and developing propaganda activities in accordance with its functions and tasks. The unions at all levels have reviewed, consolidated and established a team of reporters and propagandists; actively built a network of legal consultants and propagandists; a team of mediators... Towards ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, and islands, the unions at all levels have organized training and communication conferences on preventing human trafficking for women and children in border areas; communicating women's participation in protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security; training and implementing the program to accompany women in border areas; communicating on preventing sexual abuse and domestic violence...
Gender equality propaganda skit by members of the "Leaders of Change" Club of Quang Son Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities, October 2024. Photo: Yen Vy
As a result, from 2023 to present, the Women's Union at all levels in the province has organized 191 communication sessions and 20 training courses with a total of 9,673 participants; organized 2 dramatization competitions. A total of 71 community communication teams have been established, far exceeding the planned number of 35 communication teams. Propaganda activities on the Union's website, Facebook pages, and Zalo pages of all levels of the Union have been maintained continuously.
The implementation of Project 8 has also been integrated by the Women's Union at all levels with the implementation of Project 938 on "Propaganda, education, mobilization, and support for women to participate in solving a number of social issues related to women", a task that has been effectively maintained and implemented since 2017. Thanks to that, the whole province has successfully developed many models to support women to directly participate in solving social issues. Typical examples include the "Women in Law" Club; the model of "Core Association for Law Implementation and Compliance"; the "Social Crime Prevention" Club; the model of "Management and education of children in the family not to commit crimes and social crimes". Most impressively, 65/100 available trusted addresses in the community have been consolidated and improved in quality, located at the Commune/Ward Health Station; the house of the village/area chief; the house of the head of the village/area women's association. The addresses have promptly provided on-site assistance and support to hundreds of victims of domestic violence; encouraged each person to change their awareness and behavior, contributing to eliminating domestic violence.
Another way to contribute to ensuring the voice and real participation of women and children is effectively implemented by the Women's Union at all levels, which is to successfully build the "Leaders of Change" Club model in 56 schools across the province, exceeding the planned target of 50 models. With the goal of targeting girls, the established clubs have become prestigious addresses to support them in equipping them with knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to violence and abuse, knowledge about gender, gender equality and issues related to girls. These are practical provisions for them to be more confident, understand their legitimate rights, and boldly change backward customs and practices in their families, clans and communities. From there, they will become a new generation of citizens with knowledge and courage, actively building a civilized and progressive homeland in the future.
In fact, gender inequality still exists in life, especially in ethnic minority areas where women and children are at a double disadvantage. That is, they are both subject to gender inequality and obstacles from their own community's customs and practices that are still backward and cannot be eliminated, to language barriers, regional differences in socio-economic conditions, and limited access to information, education and resources... Therefore, the implementation of Project 8, especially content number 3 on ensuring the voice and real participation of women and children, is a very urgent activity, contributing to promoting gender equality in a real way, realizing rights and development opportunities for everyone in the community, without gender discrimination.
Hoang Giang
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