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Five Vietnamese enterprises to compete at Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards

Nine Vietnamese enterprises on November 26 received the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Awards at the national level, of whom the top five will represent Vietnam to participate in the Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards slated for December in Bangkok, Thailand.
Five Vietnamese enterprises to compete at Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards ảnh 1Elisa Fernandez Saenz, UN Women Viet Nam Country Representative (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Nine Vietnamese enterprises on November 26 receivedthe Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Awards at the national level, of whomthe top five will represent Vietnam to participate in the Asia-Pacific WEPsAwards slated for December in Bangkok, Thailand.

This is an activity within the framework of theWeEmpowerAsia programme (WEA) jointly carried out by the UN Women and theEuropean Union.

The WEPs are a set of seven principles that supportcompanies to take a gender-sensitive approach throughout their value chainstarting with corporate leadership and looking across the wider value chainfrom workplace, marketplace and community.

The WEPs Awards was launched in September in many countriesin the Asia-Pacific region with the aim of encouraging and recognising theefforts of companies that promote practices, programmes and actions to createmore gender-inclusive business cultures embracing the gender equality andwomen’s empowerment, raise awareness, and mobilise more companies to implementthe WEPs within their own business.

Elisa Fernandez Saenz, UN Women Viet Nam CountryRepresentative, said that the WEPs Awards recognise leaders and businesses’efforts to promote gender equality for their employees, consumers and partners,and at the same time inspire other leaders and businesses to take action tobring about greater effects./.
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