CARE in Vietnam 2023 Annual Report shares our work in different areas including sustainable livelihood, disaster risk management, gender-based violence elimination, promoting women’s entrepreneurship…
For CARE in Vietnam, our 2021-2030 strategy focuses on initiatives to empower women economically, address gender-based violence, and strive for climate justice so that poor, marginalized ethnic minority and urban people of all genders, particularly women, equitably benefit from development.
In 2023, our solutions and initiatives centered around support for women and their communities to develop sustainable livelihoods, address their climate vulnerabilities, tackle gender-based violence and promote women’s entrepreneurship by providing technical and financial support.
A women-centric approach underpins our programming in both rural and urban areas. In the women’s economic empowerment initiatives, we acknowledge that women’s needs and the barriers they face are different from men’s, hence solutions must be customized. Applying women-centered design in multiple projects has proved the approach’s criticality to creating effective and demand-driven products for women, boosting their livelihoods and business activities.
In the past year, we have seen significant achievements in collective voices and decisions emerging from grassroots initiatives. It is either the EKATA (Empowerment, Knowledge And Transformative Action) model, tested and developed by CARE Bangladesh and applied in Vietnam, to promote women’s leadership and empowerment within the garment industry; or the livelihood group model that enables women to access financial resources and improve their farming and market their produces at a better price.
Creative investment for environmental protection with either climate-smart farming solutions or integrated studies on climate change impact on industrial production lines is also enhanced. CARE in Vietnam has worked with partners and communities to apply technology in suitable and recommended projects based on scientific evidence.