After nearly 4 years of implementing Project 8, under the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period; Phase I: from 2021 to 2025 (National Target Program 1719), the Women's Union of Quang Tri province has effectively implemented core contents and targets. Thereby, opening up many opportunities to solve urgent problems of women and children in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Implementing the Central Government's policy on restructuring and streamlining the apparatus, from March 1, 2025, the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions of Ho Chi Minh City was established and officially put into operation. "When the two fields of ethnicity and religion "come together under one roof", it will facilitate the State management of ethnicity, belief and religion, especially in Ho Chi Minh City - where 53 ethnic minorities live together and millions of followers", Mr. Nguyen Duy Tan, Director of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions of Ho Chi Minh City shared. Concluding the meeting of the Steering Committee on Science, Technology Development, Innovation, Digital Transformation and Project 06, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to promote national digitalization, develop comprehensive digital citizenship, reduce and simplify administrative procedures without limits, do as much as possible; resolutely change the state from passively receiving and handling administrative procedures to a proactive and active state of serving people and businesses. Due to the influence of cold air, the North and the area from Thanh Hoa to Hue continue to be cold, the mountainous areas of the North have some places with severe cold. The area from Ha Tinh to Khanh Hoa has scattered rain and thunderstorms, with some places having moderate to heavy rain. After nearly 4 years of implementing Project 8, under the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period; Phase I: from 2021 to 2025 (National Target Program 1719), the Women's Union of Quang Tri province has effectively implemented core contents and targets. Thereby, opening up many opportunities to solve urgent problems of women and children in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Implementing the Central Government's policy on restructuring and streamlining the apparatus, from March 1, 2025, the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions of Ho Chi Minh City was established and officially put into operation. "When the two fields of ethnicity and religion "come together under one roof", it will facilitate the State management of ethnicity, belief and religion, especially in Ho Chi Minh City - where 53 ethnic minorities live together and millions of followers", Mr. Nguyen Duy Tan, Director of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions of Ho Chi Minh City shared. In recent years, from the resources of the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction, Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province has focused on creating livelihoods and solving jobs to help people escape poverty sustainably. Enterprises that have achieved the 2025 High-Quality Vietnamese Goods Certification mark have contributed nearly 170,000 billion VND to the budget, creating jobs for nearly 250,000 workers. General news of the Ethnic Minorities and Development Newspaper. The morning news on March 18 has the following notable information: The sacredness of the Hoang Sa soldiers' Khao Le The Linh ceremony. The ancient temple in Bac Ninh. Potential for community tourism in Bau Ech. Along with other news in the ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Not only playing an important role in propaganda and dissemination of laws to the people, in recent times, the prestigious people in the highland districts of Quang Nam have continuously increased production, pioneered in converting the structure of crops and livestock to develop the family economy, supporting people to improve their livelihoods. On March 18, leaders of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, the Fatherland Front Committee of Thanh Hoa province came to congratulate the Bishop's House on the occasion of the Feast of the Patron Saint of Thanh Hoa Diocese in 2025. Receiving the delegation were Bishop of Thanh Hoa Diocese Nguyen Duc Cuong and priests. Located on Pham Ho Phap Street, Hoa Thanh Town, Tay Ninh Province, about 5km southeast of Tay Ninh City and 10km from Thanh Hoa City. About 100km west of Ho Chi Minh City, Tay Ninh Holy See is the place where important religious activities take place, where Cao Dai followers come to make pilgrimages and perform solemn rituals. Quan The Am Festival is one of the major cultural and religious events of Da Nang, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists. With its rich activities, the festival is not only a place for people to worship and pray for peace, but also an opportunity to promote the unique cultural values of Ngu Hanh Son land. Tuyen Quang province has 121 communes in ethnic minority areas, of which 570 are extremely disadvantaged villages. According to the report of the Provincial People's Committee, in the period of 2021 - 2025, from the capital of assigned national target programs, especially National Target Program 1719, the province has supported investment in the construction of 600 infrastructure works to serve production, exchange of goods, and people's daily life, of which 80% is invested in developing infrastructure in difficult areas.
Opens up many opportunities
Implementing Project 8 “Achieving gender equality and solving urgent issues for women and children”, ethnic minority women in Quang Tri province have many opportunities to access and raise awareness of gender prejudices, gender stereotypes, and eliminate inappropriate customs that have made people poor and backward.
With efforts, over the past 4 years, from the resources of Project 8, National Target Program 1719, the Women's Union at all levels of Quang Tri province has organized 57 communication campaigns on gender equality; preventing and combating domestic violence, building a safe environment for women and children at the district and commune levels, in communes where the province has chosen to deploy pilot models with more than 6,450 participants.
Duplicated 290 sets of documents on gender capacity development; diversified forms of communication through publications such as: flipcharts, leaflets, notebooks, shirts, helmets, bags... The activities and events organized by the Association have created a high level of community and influence.
Promoting the achieved results, in the coming time, the Association will maintain and expand the models, increase activities with the participation of men and the community in project activities to actively contribute to changing thinking and working methods, eliminating gender prejudices and gender stereotypes, implementing real gender equality, bringing a prosperous life to the village"
Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha, President of Quang Tri Provincial Women's Union
A typical example is the “Trusted Address” model in Ta Rut 3 village, Ta Rut commune, Dakrong district. Established in 2023, the “Trusted Address” model has always received much attention and monitoring from the Party Committee and the government, especially in organizing activities to receive, support and promptly notify victims of violence, ensuring the safety of victims, and ensuring confidentiality of information about the informant and the victim.
According to Mr. Ho Van Om, Party Cell Secretary, Head of Ta Rut 3 Village, and also the owner of “Trusted Address”, the model has been effective in protecting women and vulnerable people in society from domestic violence, gradually preventing acts of violence, and creating a peaceful living environment for women and children. Thanks to these practical activities, no cases of domestic violence have been recorded in the area.
Promoting the progress of Project 8, National Target Program 1719, up to now, the Women's Union at all levels of Quang Tri province has established 29 "Leaders of Change" Clubs in schools, established and maintained 171 "Community Communication Teams" with 1,560 members participating. The Executive Board of 54 "Trusted Addresses" in the community has disseminated 121 sessions to 7,220 people about local issues.
In addition, in order to guide and improve the capacity to implement gender equality and operate effective models, the Women's Union at all levels has focused on implementing training courses and conferences to guide project implementation staff. Up to now, the Women's Union at all levels has organized 29 conferences to train skills, guide and prepare for commune-level dialogue work for 2,484 staff. The Provincial Women's Union has organized 19 conferences, training on implementation and guidance on building and operating communication teams, skills in organizing activities, etc. for more than 1,300 participants.
Awakening and promoting the inner strength of ethnic minority women
Identifying livelihood as a core issue, directly affecting the effectiveness and sustainability of poverty reduction and solving urgent social problems for women and children. Therefore, it is necessary to start by arousing and promoting women's inherent strengths and abilities, supporting women to establish themselves, start a business, and escape poverty.
With Project 8, the Women's Union at all levels in Quang Tri province has actively supported disadvantaged women, especially guiding them to develop their family economy, equipping them with knowledge of applying science and technology to production such as: digital technology, online sales, using social networks and utility software, supporting to realize start-up ideas, motivating other women to establish models of Cooperative Groups (THT), Cooperatives (HTX), developing community economy.
The Provincial Women's Union has directed the Women's Unions of the districts benefiting from Project 8 to organize and coordinate many practical activities to support ethnic minority women members such as: training, technical guidance on planting and raising livestock; building brands, connecting product consumption markets, production management...
Based on the needs and practical capacity of livelihood groups, cooperatives, the Provincial Women's Union has selected 4 models of livelihood groups, cooperatives, including: Tay Thach Han ecological agricultural cooperative, Mo O commune and Ta Rut dwarf banana cooperative, Ta Rut commune, Dakrong district; Bamboo shoot processing cooperative in Huc commune and Lao Bao town weaving cooperative, Huong Hoa district to support the application of science and technology in production and business, actively and proactively coordinating with sectors to implement activities to support livelihood groups and cooperatives.
With the support and care of the Women's Union at all levels, Ms. Ho Thi Xo, Head of the Women's Union of A Dang village, Ta Rut commune, Dakrong district, gathered and attracted women in the village to participate in growing indigenous dwarf bananas. From the initial 8,000 dwarf banana trees, Ms. Xo convinced the women with production efficiency and quickly established the dwarf banana cooperative. The model has now been selected to participate in the national "Women and the future of the green economy" competition.
To date, Ms. Xo’s dwarf banana cooperative has 20 members, with 7,200 banana bunches harvested and sold to the market each year. Total income is about 720 million VND/year.
Chairwoman of the Dakrong District Women’s Union Nguyen Thi Ty said: “The Ta Rut dwarf banana cooperative is a typical model of applying scientific and technological advances to production and applying technology to connecting product consumption. From there, it has encouraged women to change their thinking and working methods, actively seek and learn production knowledge to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and enrich themselves and the community.
According to Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha, President of the Women's Union of Quang Tri province: The formation of models, cooperatives and groups has encouraged women to boldly absorb and learn, increase the application of science and technology in production, change the structure of crops and livestock to suit the land conditions and capabilities of the family, and change the production method. At the same time, it has overcome the mentality of waiting and relying on support and assistance from the State of a part of ethnic minorities.
“Promoting the achieved results, in the coming time, the Association will maintain and expand the models, increase activities with the participation of men and the community in project activities to actively contribute to changing thinking and working methods, eliminating gender prejudices and gender stereotypes, implementing real gender equality, and bringing a prosperous life to the village”, Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha shared.
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