UN Women: Publishing report on “Figures on Ethnic Minority Women and Men in Viet Nam 2015-2019" and "Policy Brief: Gender issues of ethnic minority groups in Viet Nam"
This report is launched by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), with financial support from the Embassy of Ireland in Viet Nam, and in coordination with the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs under the Ministry ...
UN Women
Global Data Barometer
Global Data BarometerOpen Development Vietnam is supporting the Open Development Initiative who, with Sinar Project, through the D4D Asia Hub, has partnered with the Global Data Barometer to develop a new resource on data for the public good.The Global Data Barometer is expected to fill ...
Eight coastal localities get more support in forestry modernisation
The 4,040 hectares of forests planted and restored in the first phase of the World Bank (WB)-funded Forest Sector Modernisation and Coastal Resilience Enhancement Project will receive further care, as Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a decision on the adjustment of the project ...
Phạm Thu Hương
Scholarship Program for Master in Development Management at Asian Institute of Mamagement
The Asian Development Bank–Japan Scholarship Program and the Asian Institute of Management aim to achieve a prosperous, sustainable, inclusive, and resilient Asia.Through the Master in Development Management (MDM) 12-month, full time program, students are equipped to be Leaders for Development and Sustainability – capable to ...
Land
Vietnam’s 0.3 hectare of agricultural land per person is among the lowest in the world. Vietnam’s Constitution holds that land and other natural resources are "public property, owned by all the people..." Vietnamese law does not recognize customary forms of tenure, and communities (villages) do ...
Aid and development
International aid plays a significant but decreasing role in Vietnam’s national expenditure. For example in 2013, official development assistance (ODA) as a percentage of the national budget had decreased to 11.2% from 25.4% in 2003.1 The nature of development assistance has changed a lot over ...
State Public Land
State Forest LandDuring revolution and national unification, the Vietnamese government nationalized agricultural and forest land throughout the country. While agricultural land was de-collectivized in the Đổi mới reforms since the mid-1980s, the majority of forest and forest land has continued to be managed by state ...
Forests and Forestry
The Government of Vietnam considers forests an important ecological resource, valuable for the socio-economic development and well-being of communities throughout the country. Forests play a major role in adapting to climate change as well as in regular environmental functions such as preventing erosion and maintaining ...
Climate Change
Climate Change (CC) is the change in weather, and related patterns of oceans, land, surface, and ice sheets such as temperature, ice melt, and sea level rise. While CC has historically been a natural occurrence, current CC is believed to be caused by human activities ...
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
IntroductionVietnam is considered a multi-ethnic country, made up of 54 ethnic groups. The Kinh ethnic group makes up 85.4% of Vietnam’s population, or 78.32 million people. The remaining 53 ethnic groups make up only 14.6% of the country’s population (see Table 1).275Although Vietnam voted in ...
