In March 2009, a Joint Programme on Gender Equality (JPGE) was signed between the government of Viet Nam and the UN in Viet Nam with the funding from the Spanish Government through the MDG-F. The JPGE aims to improve the capacity of national and provincial authorities, institutions and other duty bearers to effectively implement, monitor, evaluate and report on the Law on Gender Equality and the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control.
This 7 minute video highlighted key achievements of the JPGE over the past three years as well as the Government’s commitment in ensuring sustainability of this joint initiative in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in Viet Nam.
The United Nations-Government of Viet Nam Joint Programme on Gender Equality (JPGE) started in March 2009 to support Viet Nam in effectively implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the Law on Gender Equality and the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control. It is implemented by the twelve UN agencies in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the General Statistics Office, and other co-implementing national partners. This four-minute interview video is produced by the JPGE in collaboration with the One UN Communications team, and it reflects the points of views on the JPGE from the colleagues representing the government, employer’s and workers’ organizations, NGO, UN, and the donor and other development partners in Viet Nam.
This is a ten-minute video titled "New hope for gender based violence survivors in Viet Nam" produced in November 2011 by UNFPA in Viet Nam. In Viet Nam, UNFPA in collaboration with other UN agencies puts every effort into breaking the silence and ensuring that the voices of women are heard. One strategy is to engage men - policy makers, parents and young boys in discourse about the dynamics and consequences of violence.
On the occasion of the 24th World AIDS Day (1 December 2011), Dr Shin Young-soo, the World Health Organization's Regional Director for the Western Pacific, says that "together we can and must work towards the vision of 'Getting to zero – zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero discrimination.
This video was produced for the third High-level Tripartite Conference on Delivering as One, hosted in Hanoi in June 2010. It features interviews with key stakeholders involved in the UN reform process, globally and in Viet Nam.
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This video presents a story about farmers in My Loc Commune, Can Loc District, Ha Tinh Province, who are forced to migrate for work. The UN's International Labour Organization's (ILO) Community-based Training for Economic Empowerment (CB-TREE) programme created jobs and earnings by providing trainings in the production of bamboo baskets, honey, boat, and healthier plants fence, etc. The farmers can find new opportunities in the local community with their new learned skills. One of a series of the Decent Work Stories from Viet Nam.
Stigma and discrimination against children affected HIV and AIDS has been a critical social issue in Viet Nam. There has been several incidents reported in last few years when children affected by HIV and AIDS were refused from schooling due to pressure from parents of their peers or discriminated when it comes to social services in their community despite the fact that Vietnamese laws protect all children to attend school regardless of HIV status of themselves or nor their family. This talk show of O2 TV, a Vietnamese cable channel for health issue, with speakers including a UN expert on HIV and AIDS, highlights the issue children living with HIV and AIDS face in school and community, and facts about children and HIV and AIDS. 
Accidental injury has become a leading cause of death for children in Viet Nam. In 2007, 7,894 children were killed by preventable injuries. The leading cause of injury related to death include: drowning, traffic accident, poisoning, falling, burns and animal bites. This video provide overview of the child injury related issues in Viet Nam and how UNICEF support the government and community to prevent child injury. (10:26 min)
One third of all children in Viet Nam experience some form of poverty, according to multi-dimensional child poverty measurement tool. A country-specific multi-dimensional tool was developed by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the General Statistic Office, with support from UNICEF. This video explains the child poverty approach taking into consideration the basic human needs and rights of the child as defined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The video illustrate the following eight domains of poverty: education; nutrition; health; shelter; water and sanitation; child labour; leisure; social inclusion and protection. A child is considered to be living in poverty if his/her needs are unmet in at least two out of the eight poverty domains. (16:43 min)
In Viet Nam, according to the National Study on Domestic Violence against Women carried out by the General Statistics Office and the United Nations in 2010, one in three, or 34%, of ever-married women report that they have suffered physical or sexual violence from their husbands at some time in their lives. To prevent and address gender-based violence, and provide support and services to survivors, many more resources have to be committed by both the government and development partners. Combating gender-based violence, promoting gender equality, and enhancing women’s empowerment have to be integrated into Viet Nam’s socio-economic development goals and agendas. By doing so, many Vietnamese women could break the silence, stand up for their rights, and live a life free of violence.
This TV spot was created to support the measles campaign in 2010, which is being organized by the Ministry of Health, with support from two United Nations (UN) agencies in Viet Nam, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign targets 7.5 million children aged one through five. The aim is to ensure that by 2012 Viet Nam will eliminate measles across the country.
The Bubblies learn that breastfeeding in the first hour after birth and thereafter ensures the health and development of a new baby. On the occasion of the 2010 Breastfeeding Week in Viet Nam , this TV spot aim to raise public awareness on exclusive breastfeeding. Created by UNICEF EAPRO regional office and WHO originally, it is adopted to Vietnamese by the Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO, and Alive & Thrive.
This is a set of two TV advertisement produced by the National Centre of Health and Education at Ministry of Health with the financial and technical supports from UNICEF. The main part tells the pregnant women and mothers the importance of starting bereastfeeding within one hour after the delivery and the exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of child. They are created and broadcasted nationally on the occasion of the breastfeeding promotion campaign in 2009 - 2010. (Vietnamese language only)
This is a ten-minute video produced by the UNTV from New York in October 2009, on the occasion of the launch of The State of World Population “Facing a changing world: women, population and climate”. The main part of the video tells the stories of two women in Hai Lang district, Quang Tri province where natural disasters happen every year. They share their experiences in coping with climate change and on how they take part in the adaptation activities in their community.
Thirty United Nations staff in Viet Nam participated in a joint mission to monitor the 2009 Population and Housing Census carried out in 21 provinces throughout the country from 1 to 15 April 2009. The purpose of the monitoring trips is to advocate for and reinforce the importance of the national census enumeration, so that more efforts and resources will be made available by government authorities at all levels, thereby helping to ensure the quality and success of the census. Data provided by the 2009 Census is key to assessing implementation of the 2001-2010 socio-economic development plan and to prepare the 2011-2020 socio-economic. This video is a photo collection of the monitoring trips in different provinces in Viet Nam.
This is an advertisement currently airing on national Vietnamese television which was produced as part of the multi-sector mass media campaign ‘Domestic violence is against the law. Lets stop it now!’. The campaign targets domestic violence and men’s behavior and is run by the Spanish organization Peace and Development and produced by the Grey Media Group with financial and technical support from UNFPA and UNIFEM. The campaign also involved close cooperation with Ministry for Culture, Sport and Tourism (MOCST), Viet Nam Women's Union,Viet Nam Farmers Union, ActionAID, and the Institute for Reproductive and family Health (RaFH), with additional support from the Spanish Agency for International Development (AECIOD). In addition to television, radio and print materials, many community-based events such as sport matches and leaflets are distributed by the campaign nation-wide.
