Gender Joint Programme

Duration: 2 Years

Location: Ha Noi

Under the three-year Joint Programme (JP) on Gender Equality (GE), twelve UN agencies and programmes, in partnership with the Government of Viet Nam, will provide strategic, coordinated and multi-sectoral capacity building and technical assistance to national and provincial partners. This will support better implementation, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the Law on Gender Equality (GEL) and the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control (DVL) for 2009-2011. The JP has been jointly developed and will be implemented by Government concerned agencies and the 12 UN agencies.

The JP specifically aims to build national institutional capacity and has developed the following three outcomes:

• Improved skills, knowledge and practices for the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the Law on Gender Equality and the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control;

• Enhanced partnerships and coordination around gender equality within and outside of the government;

• Strengthened evidence-based data and data systems for promoting gender equality.

To achieve the three outcomes, the Joint Programme will focus on key interventions that will contribute to overall capacity building of line Ministries at national and provincial levels involved in coordination, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the two laws. The aim is also to improve networking and partnerships with and among relevant Ministries and civil society involved in GE and DV laws, whilst further strengthening and disseminating currently under-utilized and reported GE and sex-disaggregated indicators and identifying data gaps.