Capacity building project helps ethnic people improve life quality

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Capacity building project helps ethnic people improve life quality

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

YBO - Over the last three years, a project on community-based management and capacity building for Tay and Mong ethnic people to improve living conditions, funded by Solidarity Service International (SODI), has been carried out in Hong Ca and Viet Hong communes of Tran Yen district Yen Bai province.

Residents in Khe Tien hamlet of Hong Ca commune, Tran Yen district, listen to a presentation of the Law on Gender Equality.

Since 2019, the project has been implemented in four disadvantaged hamlets of Tran Yen district, namely Ban Chao and Ban Van of Viet Hong commune, and Khe Tien and Ban Khun of Hong Ca commune.

Under this project, the Centre for Promoting Development for Women and Children (DWC) has coordinated with the provincial Women’s Union to learn about people’s demand for legal knowledge and build communication plans appropriate to each community so as to improve local residents' awareness of grassroots democracy, inheritance rights, children’s rights, traffic rules, the Land Law, domestic violence prevention and control, and the Law on Gender Equality, among others.

Vu A Chua, a resident in Khe Tien hamlet of Hong Ca commune, said through training courses, he has gained a better understanding of the rights and power of communal cadres and civil servants who directly handle people’s affairs, as well as the use and management of funds, investments, and sponsorships for programmes and projects at the communal level.

Hoang Minh Nhat, head of Van village in Viet Hong commune, said thanks to training in gender equality and domestic violence prevention and control, local people have further understood the difficulties facing rural and ethnic minority women, who spend most of their time caring for their families and do not have conditions to take part in recreational, cultural, and social activities, or improve their educational level and knowledge about domestic violence.

Law dissemination to local residents, including ethnic minority people, has been carried out in a flexible manner to make knowledge more understandable for local residents. For example, information was interpreted for residents in the hamlets with large ethnic minority populations.

Thanks to the project, legal awareness among ethnic minority residents in Tran Yen district has improved substantially.

After more than three years of project implementation, the DWC has helped Ban Chao, Ban Van, Khe Tien, and Ban Khun hamlets build four cultural centres and carry out 25 sub-projects with total investment of over 1.26 billion VND (53,800 USD).

Ha Thi Doa, Vice President of the Yen Bai provincial Women’s Union, said through training courses, the project has raised public awareness, thus greatly helping reduce child and consanguineous marriages, along with domestic violence. Besides, local women have received more care from their families so as to nurture an equal, progressive, and happy life. Through joint activities, people have also assisted one another to deal with community issues and improve life quality.

Minh Huyen

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