Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the document sub-committee, has delivered the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee’s report on documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress, pointing out many new and outstanding issues in the orientations for the next 10 years. He presented the report at the opening session of the congress, in Hanoi on January 26. The overall development goal for the 2021-2025 tenure and subsequent years is to improve the Party’s leadership capacity, ruling capacity, and combatant strength; build a clean and comprehensively strong Party and political system; enhance the people’s trust in the Party, State, and the socialist regime; inspire aspirations for a prosperous and happy country and bring into play the will and strength of the great national solidarity in combination with the strength of the era; comprehensively and concertedly promote reforms, industrialisation, and modernisation; … [Read more...] about New, outstanding issues in national development orientations for next decade
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Vietnam needs $35 bln for climate change adaptation: PM
Increasing resilience among communities, industries and sectors against climate change, bolstering sustainable development, gender equality and poverty eradication, providing financial and technological support to developing countries and promoting multi-stakeholder partnerships for climate change adaptation would be key to tackle challenges posed by the climate crisis, he noted. … [Read more...] about Vietnam needs $35 bln for climate change adaptation: PM
If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved
As one of the few countries that could make this report, Vietnam identified resources to implement the SDGs in five key areas: education, health, transport, rural areas, electricity and water by 2030, with about US$108 billion, of which the public sector can only provide $75.8 billion. The remaining resources can be mobilized from the private sector through public-private partnerships (PPP) projects, ODA and other financial sources. The Vietnamese Government has always determined that if the problem of poverty is not addressed, the development objectives such as economic growth, stability and human rights cannot be fulfilled. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved
Efforts to empower ethnic minority women
Ms. Nguyen Thuy Linh, Director of the Center for Community Empowerment (CECEM), said that when it comes to empowering women, many people are still unclear, there are many approaches and perspectives on gender inequality. and women's empowerment. However, gender inequalities in ethnic minority communities have not been effectively addressed as expected due to a lack of understanding of the role of women and gender relations in ethnic minority cultures. For example, with the Capacity Building Project in Dak Nong, in addition to livelihood development, there should be other activities that are most effective for ethnic minority groups such as: understanding the power of the community itself to create opportunity for them to take advantage; impact the beliefs of ethnic minority communities with the slogan "I believe I can"; community initiative ... … [Read more...] about Efforts to empower ethnic minority women
Vietnamese healthcare achieves impressive results in 2020
Strictly observing the motto ‘Fighting the Pandemic Fiercely like Fighting the Hardest Enemy’ of the Central Party and the Government, all the medical human resources nationwide cooperated closely with the military and police to help all citizens stay away from the disease and try their best to cure Covid-19 patients. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese healthcare achieves impressive results in 2020