Vietnam promotes on helping women adapt to climate change

Vietnamese women have played an increasingly important role in production and business activities. They have also adapted well to climate change and helped to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters.

Women have played a pioneering role in climate change response and mitigation!

Vietnam needs to continue to promote women-led initiatives to empower members of the fair sex in vulnerable regions and sectors, while increasing their engagement in the workplace.

Climate change has become one of the greatest challenges to the living environment and the future of humankind. So far, gender equality and climate change have received great attention as issues with close relations.

Gender equality is the target and the method of this approach to climate change. However, there are still preconceptions about the role and capacity of women in natural disasters as well as climate change response.

Both women and men need to be considered not only the victims of climate change and natural disasters, but also positive factors that create change.

Gender equality is a necessary condition for countries to implement their national response plan and nationally determined contributions, offered a chance for countries to raise ideas on the promotion of gender equality as well as the enhancement of women’s role in response to climate change and the mitigation of natural disaster risks.

Vietnamese women have played an important role in production, business activities, and climate change response, but many researchers have pointed out that the involvement of women has faced many barriers in technology, capacity, communications and finance.

The implementation of policies such as the NDC is an important premise to create favourable conditions for women to engage in climate change response and mitigation. It will help them optimise their role in adapting to climate change through creative production and business models.

Vietnam is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially from extreme weather events such as storms and floods.

In fact, poor rural people in Vietnam are particularly vulnerable because their livelihoods depend on agricultural disasters impacted by natural disasters, they lack the assets and capital to be able to acquire a climate change resistance and adaptation strategy as well as to establish a disaster management system.

The process of planning for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation will be difficult to succeed without the participation and contribution of women.

Women play a crucial role in the Viet Nam. Not only do they comprise almost half of its population, but they also play important roles at household level, in the rural and urban economies and in society as a whole.

Remarkable progress has been made in Viet Nam to close gender gaps over the past years, particularly in the areas of poverty eradication, education and health.

Women should not be seen as victims; rather they should be considered crucial actors of change.