The CARE International in Vietnam (CVN) Strategy sets the organization’s direction for the 2021–2025 period in which CVN will work with communities and partners to achieve gender equality and social justice. We invite you to read our 2021 Annual Report and find out some of our highlights.
This report showcases the many ways in which we support work at the community and country level to turn our strategic goal – poor and marginalized ethnic minority and urban people of all genders, particularly women, equitably benefit from development – into concrete results for women and their communities in Vietnam.
At CARE, we believe that overcoming poverty and injustice and making the world more hopeful, tolerant, and fair is not an abstract goal but a real possibility. With over 30 years of experience in Vietnam, we understand that to bring actual lasting change, we must tackle the root causes of poverty and social injustice in all that we do.
In 2021, we continually focused on our impact rather than ‘just’ the numbers we reached. In the report, you will find some of the highlights, including how we have supported women and their communities to address gender-based violence through community-based systems or promoted women’s entrepreneurship by providing technical and financial support, as well as linking them to entrepreneurial networks.
We have contributed to a unified regulatory framework for the management and implementation of the government-funded National Target Programs, including Social Economic Development for Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Regions, which strengthened further key principles of people participation and gender equality, decentralization, and community ownership.
Core to our work is our partnerships with community members and leaders, and collaboration with key stakeholders. These networks and relationships enable us to continue learning, reflecting, growing, and delivering more significant impact.