Due to gender discrimination and restrictive social roles, women and girls from ethnic minority groups in Viet Nam are particularly vulnerable to violence and discrimination. With financial support from the Government of Ireland, UN Women and the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) published a report on “Figures on Ethnic Minority Women and Men in Viet Nam 2015” presenting first-ever sex disaggregated  data on the socio-economic situation of the 53 recognized ethnic...

The GRBC has developed five criteria for evaluation of genderresponsiveness of the budgeted government programmes and projects. These criteria include women's participation in programme formulation and implementation, benefit accruing to them, their capacity building, contribution to women's employment/income generation, and reduction in women's workload and qualitative improvement in their time use.

Governments raise tax revenues so that they can meet the needs of the people they represent. Fair and equal taxation makes sure that tax laws do not discriminate against people who live traditional lives, subsistence farmers, rural business owners, women, or the poor