Gender equality is a major policy of the Party and State, and at the same time one of the important tasks of the Strategy and plan for socio-economic development of the country. This is the foundation of the human development strategy of the Party and State to ensure substantive equality between men and women in terms of opportunities, participation and enjoyment in the political, economic, cultural and social fields, contributing to the rapid and sustainable development of the country.
Nowadays, women have been cared for in all aspects by the Party and the State. Women increasingly play a great role in the family and a significant role in society. Women have promoted their talents and intelligence, contributing their efforts in many sectors and fields of society, especially in the field of KTTV.
Climate change is a global challenge, negatively affecting the sustainable development of every country, the lives of people, including women and children. In recent years, climate change has become stronger, more frequent and caused more serious impacts. Natural disasters of hydrometeorological origin have had a significant impact on production and human life. The workshop aimed to discuss gender equality and the role of women in disaster prevention and climate change adaptation.
In his presentation on gender equality work in the past 5 years, Mr. Nguyen Van Vinh, Deputy Head of the Board for the Advancement of Women of the General Department of Hydrometeorology, said that in order to implement the Law on Gender Equality, national goals on gender equality, the plan to implement the National Strategy on Gender Equality of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the General Department of Hydrometeorology and the work of female cadres, immediately after its establishment, the General Department of Hydrometeorology established the Board for the Advancement of Women.
At the same time, the units under the General Department also established the Committees for the Advancement of Women of the units. In the recent past, the Committees for the Advancement of Women have performed well the role of advising the General Department's Leaders and the Leaders of the units in implementing activities on women's work and gender equality.
Currently, the General Department Party Committee has 06 comrades, of which 01 is a female officer (accounting for 16.7%); The General Department's leadership has 05 people, of which 01 is a female officer (accounting for 20%); the number of cadres holding leadership and management positions at the department level and equivalent at units under the General Department is 69 people, of which 04 are female officers (accounting for 0.57%), 01 is a head; the number of cadres participating in leadership and management work from the station level and above and participating in the Party Committee is 467 people, of which 120 are female officers (accounting for 25.7%).
Under the leadership and direction of the Party Committee and the General Department's leaders, the work on women and gender equality of the General Department of Hydrometeorology has achieved encouraging results: propaganda and dissemination of contents related to gender equality and women's advancement have been carried out regularly; the organization of gender equality and women's advancement has been improved; the integration of gender equality contents in the fields of politics, training, fostering, employment, and health has been given attention and implemented according to regulations.
To continue to effectively promote the role and responsibility in implementing gender equality work, the General Department of Hydrometeorology will continue to organize many activities on gender equality and women's work with the main content being the integration of gender work and professional work to create opportunities for exchange, sharing of experiences, and improving capacity to perform assigned tasks.
Sharing about gender equality in disaster risk reduction and prevention in Finland, Ms. Ani Karttuen, representing the Embassy of Finland, said that natural disasters often disproportionately affect women and children. When disasters occur, women are less likely to survive and have access to health care and are more vulnerable to disasters. Therefore, in Finland, when we build a response to climate change, we always build the role of women because they make up 50% of the population.
We also have agendas on promoting women's participation. And especially we always integrate gender equality and climate change and the role of women into the agenda. In Finland, gender equality is always a top priority, with many important solutions for gender equality such as empowering women, women are the key in building and strengthening disaster prevention...
The speech of Mr. Nguyen Manh Thang, Deputy Director of the Northern Region Hydrometeorological Station, said that the Station has 10 stations with a total of 551 people, of which 293/551 are female officers, civil servants and workers, accounting for 53.18%. Regarding gender equality, in recent years, the Northern Region Hydrometeorological Station has always paid attention to leading women's work, caring for and developing female staff through the issuance of directives, resolutions and policies related to women's work and female staff work.
In the coming time, the Northern Regional Hydrometeorological Station will take strong and drastic actions to create sources, plan, train and foster female cadres to ensure quantity and quality, considering this a strategic task in the personnel work of the Regional Station. Raise awareness of heads of agencies and units about the meaning and importance of women's work in the period of promoting industrialization, modernization and international integration. Synchronously and effectively implement all stages of female cadre work, including cadre assessment, planning, training and fostering, etc.
At the workshop, guests also had many questions about gender equality in terms of opportunities, responsibilities and rights of women as well as: the role of women in disaster prevention and control and made suggestions and recommendations on how to promote women's capacity and contribution to disaster prevention and control.
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