To address urgent issues for ethnic minority women and children, implementing Project 8 of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period (National Target Program 1719), Cao Bang has been focusing on building and replicating models of changing "thinking and working styles" in the province's ethnic minority areas. The models are bringing about effectiveness, contributing to promoting the elimination of gender prejudices and stereotypes in families and communities. Recently, from the capital of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas Phase I: 2021-2025 (National Target Program 1719), mountainous localities of Quang Ngai have focused on building highly effective economic models. From there, promote sustainable agricultural development and bring stable income to the people. 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Helping ethnic minority students have a voice
In May 2023, with the support of the Women's Union of Bao Lam district, Quang Lam Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities established the "Leaders of Change" Club, with 30 members. The club meets once a month, on the 15th of each month.
According to teacher Bui Bao Ngoc, Head of the Youth Union of Quang Lam Secondary Boarding School, the club's activities aim to enhance knowledge for ethnic minority students about health care skills, gender knowledge, gender equality, especially the content about the consequences of early marriage and incestuous marriage. Participating in the club, knowledge is improved, the students become active propagandists for their families and the community.
By joining the club, Ma Thi Lan, a Mong ethnic minority student, grade 8A, Quang Lam Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, has better understood the consequences of early marriage. Lan said: “When I got home, I shared that knowledge with my family and informed my friends about the harmful effects of early marriage and incestuous marriage. I hope my friends will understand and will no longer have the intention of getting married early.”
Like Quang Lam Ethnic Boarding Secondary School, many secondary schools in Cao Bang province have established and actively operated the “Leaders of Change” Club model. This is an activity under Project 8 of the National Target Program 1719 to ensure the voice and role of girls in the socio-economic development of the community through the “Leaders of Change” Club model.
Although it has not been established for long, the “Leaders of Change” clubs in secondary schools in Cao Bang province have been operating actively; thereby equipping ethnic minority students with useful knowledge and skills, encouraging them to speak up, change their way of thinking, learning, working and contributing to eliminating backward habits and customs.
According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Minh, Vice President of the Cao Bang Provincial Women's Union, implementing Project 8 in the area, the province strives to establish 125 "Leaders of Change" clubs by 2025, while supporting the capacity building and organization of the clubs' activities. Up to now, many localities have completed the targets of the whole period.
For example, in Bao Lac district, from 2022 to present, the district Women's Union has coordinated with the Department of Education to train, direct and guide the Union's bases to coordinate with secondary schools in the district to establish "Leaders of Change" clubs. Up to now, the whole district has had 14 clubs, with more than 400 club members and more than 60 presenters, completing the target assigned by the province for the period 2021-2025.
Pioneering change in the community
In Project 8 under the National Target Program 1719, to propagate and mobilize changes in "thinking and doing" to contribute to eliminating prejudices and gender stereotypes in families and communities, harmful cultural practices and some urgent social issues for women and children, an important activity is to build pioneering communication groups for change in the community.
In particular, the Community Communication Team (CMT) is one of the basic models. Although newly put into operation, CMTs in Cao Bang province have organized many communication activities suitable for each content and target audience; thereby, initially achieving positive results.
For example, in Ban Gua hamlet, Truong Luong commune (Hoa An district); the hamlet has 108 households, 497 people, most of whom are ethnic minorities. In December 2022, the Ban Gua hamlet Community Information Team was established, with 08 members. Since its establishment, with their dynamism, enthusiasm, prestige, and responsibility, the members of the Ban Gua hamlet Community Information Team have actively promoted propaganda with the motto "Propaganda on the spot, wherever we meet, we propagate there".
Thanks to that, issues such as littering, domestic violence; the issue of having a third child or cumbersome procedures in organizing weddings, funerals, etc. have been more fully recognized by the people. Women of childbearing age have paid more attention to reproductive health care; prenatal and newborn screening; many inappropriate customs have gradually been changed by the people of Ban Gua.
According to Ms. Hoang Thi Ngoc Lan, Chairwoman of the Women's Union of Hoa An district, 63 TTCĐ groups have been established in the district. To make the groups' activities effective, the Women's Union of the district has provided loudspeakers, documents, and instructions on propaganda skills so that members can confidently carry out their tasks and roles.
As in Hoa An district, the TTCĐ groups in Cao Bang province, with members who are local, close, prestigious, and have a voice in the community, have been effective in propagating and mobilizing to change "thinking and doing" to help eliminate gender prejudices and stereotypes. In particular, the TTCĐ groups are mainly established in remote areas of the province, not only helping people change their awareness and actions on gender equality and children's rights but also contributing to the completion of the tasks of the National Target Program 1719 in the area.
To continue to improve the effectiveness of the TTCĐ teams in the province, recently (November 14), the Cao Bang Provincial Women's Union organized the 2024 provincial-level contest "Creative and effective communication models in the process of eliminating gender prejudice and gender stereotypes". The contest had 9 teams from 9 districts participating in the contest.
According to Ms. Doan Thi Le An, President of the Cao Bang Provincial Women's Union, the contest is an opportunity for the Project 8's Communication Teams in the districts to exchange and learn good, creative and effective ways of propagating gender equality, eliminating gender stereotypes and backward customs in ethnic minority areas, remote and isolated areas of the province. The aim is to eliminate gender prejudices, create conditions for women and children to promote their roles and powers in the family and society, and actively contribute to building a cultural and civilized life at the grassroots level.
Implementing Project 8 of the National Target Program 1719, Cao Bang province strives to establish 125 "Leaders of Change" Clubs by 2025; organize 306 policy dialogues at the commune and village/hamlet levels; organize training courses to improve the capacity of ethnic minority female cadres participating in leadership in the political system; 42 training courses on monitoring and evaluating gender equality for commune and village cadres; 33 training courses on gender mainstreaming for district and commune cadres; 115 training courses on gender mainstreaming for village and hamlet cadres;...
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