HCM CITY — People’s Committees at all levels in HCM City will work to enhance the participation of local Women’s Union chapters in State management activities in the next five-year period through 2013.
This was announced at a conference held by the municipal People’s Committee last Friday to review the implementation of Government Decree No 19/2003/ND-CP directing the participation of women in State management over the last five years.
The city’s Committee for the Advancement of Women would work with the HCM City administration to instruct departments and agencies to study relevant issues including identifying and resolving problems in providing vocational training for female workers and the increasing incidence of abortions among young women in the city, said Nguyen Ngoc Hanh, Standing Deputy Director of the municipal Women’s Union.
Administrative agencies in the city had created favourable conditions for the Women’s Unions to forward opinions on amendments to legal documents as well as programmes and projects on socio-economic issues relating to women and children during the last five years, she said.
These included literacy programmes for children and women, a programme to provide credit support to poor women and reproductive healthcare programmes, Hanh added.
The Women’s Unions have been invited to join members of various councils and steering committees and contribute to socio-economic policies, and to co-ordinate with departments and agencies to organise and implement programmes and projects related to the betterment of women and children.
These included projects on environmental hygiene in rural areas, said Le Hong Hoanh, Deputy Director of the city’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department.
The Women’s Unions had also been supported with funding and improved working conditions over the past five years, said Nguyen Thi Thanh, deputy director of the city’s Home Affairs Department.
Thanh said that the State budget allocation for Women’s Unions had increased every year and supplementary funding was provided to implement specific campaigns.
Financial support had been provided to equip Women’s Unions at all levels with computers and to rebuild the office of HCM City Women’s Union, the meeting heard.
The HCM City Women’s Union received VND2 billion (US$113,000) from the State budget to build a health clinic named after Nguyen Thi Ranh, a Viet Nam Heroic Mother in Cu Chi District.
Thanh said that People’s Committees at various levels should carry out periodic assessments to constantly improve implementation of the decree. —
Source: vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn
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