Opening remarks at the launching ceremony of the Project “Promoting Participation and Improving Management Capacity of Women's Organizations in Policy Development in Response to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction”

     On September 1, 2020, in Da Nang, Mrs. Vu Thi Bich Hop - Director of Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) cum President of the network of Vietnamese NGOs on Climate Change (VNGO- CC) gave the online opening remarks for the launching project “Promoting Participation and Improving Management Capacity of Women’s Organizations in Policy Development in Respond to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction”. The project is implemented by the Center for Environmental and Community Research (CECR) in partnership with the Vietnam Network of Non-Governmental Organizations on Climate Change (VNGO-CC), under the framework of the EmPower Regional Program in order to strengthen human rights and gender equality through responding to climate change and disaster risk reduction. The program is funded by the Swedish Government through the United Nations Agency on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The project helps promoting participation of women and women-led social organizations as well as capacity building for gender in climate change response activities, and at the same time, increasing their contributions to central and local decision-making.

Mrs. Vu Thi Bich Hop - Director of SRD and President of VNGO-CC Network gave her opening speech online at the ceremony

 Overview of the ceremony

     VNGO-CC network was established in 2008 with more than 100 NGOs in all provinces across the country active in the areas of adaptation, climate change mitigation and sustainable livelihood development. According to Mrs. Vu Thi Bich Hop, the project activities will have good impacts on poor and vulnerable communities, especially girls and women. Each organization working in a different area and community can coordinate with each other to increase efficiency, help raise the voice of women who are constantly facing the impacts of climate change and transmit those messages to the state management agencies and the international community. Those are the foundation for the response to climate change. Mrs. Hop also affirmed that VNGO - CC Network would support the project and connect stakeholders in the best way and expressed her wish to continue to accompany the Government of Vietnam in the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Action Plan for Climate Change Adaptation (NAP) and Integrating gender-equality into policies.

Mrs. Ann Mawe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden to Vietnam, spoke at the ceremony

Mr. Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), spoke at the ceremony

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