Workshop talks sustainable livelihood for women amidst climate change
Women in areas vulnerable to climate change would be better equipped to effectively contribute to joint efforts against climate change if they receive livelihood support, heard a workshop in Hanoi on April 22.
Participants at the event discuss the implementation of the project. (Source: UN Women)
Hanoi (VNA) – Women in areas vulnerable to climate change would be betterequipped to effectively contribute to joint efforts against climate change ifthey receive livelihood support, heard a workshop in Hanoi on April 22.
VuPhuong Ly, a programme specialist at the UN Women Vietnam, said that if women arenot given the opportunity to equally participate in activities combatingclimate change and disaster risks, their vulnerability is likely to increase.
Therefore,gender equality has been seen as the foundation for disaster risk managementand climate change adaptation, as well as the path towards sustainabledevelopment goals (SDGs), she noted.
PhamThi Ha Phuong, an official of the same programme, said that up to 63.4 percentof women in rural households in Vietnam engage in agricultural production.
Withlimited access to information, resources, credit, markets, vocational trainingprogrammes, and agriculture extension services, the group has a limitedcapacity to adapt to and cope with the effects of climate change and natural disasters.
Theofficial also pointed to the current undefined role of women in makingdecisions relating to the combat against disasters and climate change
Delegatesat the event brought up preparations for the implementation of sustainablelivelihood models in support of ethnic minority women in the northernmountainous province of Lao Cai and women in the central coastal province ofQuang Nam.
Themodels form part of the project on sustainable livelihood for rural womenamidst climate change and disaster risks, which is under the programme onimproving women’s livelihood and participation towards better resistance againstdisaster risks and climate change adaptation.
Vietnam is one of countries most vulnerable toand most affected by climate change and natural disasters. The Global ClimateRisk Index 2015 for the period 1994-2013 ranked Vietnam in seventh place.
It is estimated that more than 70 percent of the Vietnamesepopulation, and especially women and children, are particularly vulnerable to theeffects of natural disasters. –VNA
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Participants at the event discuss the implementation of the project. (Source: UN Women) 
