UNFPA Representative in Vietnam Naomi Kitahara speaks at the workshop. (Photo: VNA) The event was held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) incollaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and funded by theGovernment of Australia under the Project “Eliminating violence against womenand children in 2021-2025”.
It discussed the implementation of the new National Programme on DomesticViolence Prevention and Control until 2025, approved by the Prime Minister inJanuary 2022, and the Prime Minister’s decisions on the family work.
The discussions focused on key solutions of this national programme, includingthe revision and finalisation of laws and policies on domestic violenceprevention and control, strengthening the leadership and coordination betweenministries, sectors, and localities in achieving targets of the nationalprogramme, and building and operating support systems for domestic violencesurvivors.
The key objectives of the national programme include over 70 percent of peopleat risk of domestic violence to be equipped with knowledge and skills indomestic violence response; 95 percent of detected domestic violence survivorsto receive protection, legal assistance, and healthcare; 95 percent ofcommunes, wards, and towns to run and maintain the Domestic Violence Preventionand Control Model; and 90 percent of people directly engaged in domesticviolence prevention and control to be provided with training in knowledge,skills, and professional practices on domestic violence prevention and control,among others.
In his opening remarks, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Australian Embassy inVietnam Mark Tattersall said: "No society is immune from domestic andfamily violence, and no country can afford to be passive. Not Australia, notVietnam.”
Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Australian Embassy in Vietnam Mark Tattersall speaks at the workshop. (Photo: VNA) Meanwhile, UNFPA Representative in Vietnam Naomi Kitahara welcomed the DomesticViolence Prevention and Control Law which is scheduled to be endorsed inOctober 2022.
Kitahara said: “I am very proud of Vietnam reaching this level of engagement intrying to eliminate domestic violence in the country, and in the next fiveyears, UNFPA is fully committed to continue supporting the Ministry of Culture,Sports and Tourism for the implementation of this national programme to ensurethat all women and children in Vietnam, including those most vulnerable, live alife free of violence.”
Ending violence against women and girls should be a priority for everyone forthe achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, leaving no onebehind, she stressed.
“We must stop violence against women and children now, and I trust thecooperation between the Government of Vietnam, the Government of Australia,UNFPA and other international and national partners will realise that goal,”Kitahara believed.
The workshop also looked into the implementation of the Vietnam Family Strategyby 2030 and the Programme on Family Ethics and Lifestyle Education by 2030.
Vietnam has fully recognised that sustainable family development constitutesone of the key factors to ensure the success of industrialisation andmodernisation in the country.
With its responsibility of state management in family development, the Ministryof Culture, Sports and Tourism has worked closely with other relevantministries and agencies as well as local authorities to review theimplementation of the 2010-2020 Family Strategy and to develop the NationalFamily Development Strategy by 2030 and the Programme on Family Ethics andLifestyle Education by 2030, which were approved by the Prime Minister.
The Family Development Strategy aims to build Vietnamese prosperous,progressive, and happy families, which act as healthy cells of the society; thehomes for everyone; and the place to nurture and foster individuals’personalities and lifestyles of respecting the nation's good traditions, thuspromoting and multiplying positive values that contribute to the country’ssustainable development./.
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