COUNTRY REPORT

SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR WORMEN IN VIETNAM

1. Definition of social protection in Vietnam

• Social protection is ensuring people with minimum income and minimum access of services ‘s quality in health, houses, pure water and information via inproving self- capability of social protection of people, assistance from State, activities of insurance and voluntary contribution system from organizations and individuals in managing and controlling risks of unemployment, old age, illness, natural disaster and market economy, etc, leading to decrease or be unemployed in temporary and permanence.

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2. Objectives of social protection in Vietnam

• Objectives of social protection policy is for everyone , • In which, it is focued on the poors, people who have

extremely difficult circumstance, ethnic minority in poor district, commune, especially people who get difficulty / risks from natural disaster, fire, accidents in life that they or their family can not afford to overcome and tend to be falled in poverty, etc

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SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN VIETNAM

Employment and minimum income guarantee for the poor

Social insurance Social assistance Basic social service

Job creation Compulsory social insurance

Regular social assistance

Preferential credit

Vocational training

Job seeking support (domestic and abroad)

Public employment

Poverty reduction

Sickness

Maternity

Employment injury and occupational diseases

Pension

Survivor

Voluntory social insurance

Pension

Survivor

Unemployment insurance

Supplemental pension insurance

Take caring at social protection institutions and at communities

Cash transfer

Emergency social assistance

Education

Vocation

Housing

Clean water

Information

Existing programs on social protection for women in MSMEs

- Vocational training for women (including start-up business program)

- Microfinance programmes- The project on HIV/AIDs prevention at

workplace- The project on sexual harrasment prevention

at workplace- The Gender Economic Development Working

Group

3. Some projects and activities

• The project on HIV/AIDs prevention at workplace• The project on sexual harrasment prevention at

workplace• The Gender Economic Development Working Group:provide tools for members to: (1) create opportunities

and favorable environment for women to establish and run business effectively; (2) support the group of disadvantaged women to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty; (3) provide recommendations and lobby policies on gender in business.

4. Gaps and challenges in implementing social protection programs for women in

MSMEs• social protection for women and girls are

unsatisfactory and not sustainble• raising awareness of gender integration into

policies in general and social protection policies in particular are short of expectation in both quantity and quality aspects.

• Gender equality awareness is still limited. The real gender equality has not yet gained in social protection

wage employment workers in jobs and unpaid family self-employment 0

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15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

29

24.5

46

40

12.5

44

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Labor relations in MSMEs

Women business owners Men business owners

Contribution for social insurance insurance

Contribution for health insurance

Contribution for unemployment insurance

Paid maternal leave

Unpaid maternal leavePaid maternal leave

Paid annual leave

retirement lump -sum

DeathDirect compensation for occupational accidents and diseases

Sick leave

Welfare by sex of the owner or manager interprises

Source: Charactertics of the Vietnames business environment eviden from a SME survey in 2013. CIEM-Dos-Ilssa

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• Vocational Training• Retraining• Credit• Labour Mobility Support• Job Introduction• Temporary/public work

Active labour market policy

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Priority credit program for development production of the poor and poor family

Object: Includesfour groups: poor, poor households in 61 poor districts, household of ethnic minorities who have no or not enough land for production, demand and conversion sectors of households ethnic minorities in particular difficult. .

The result: Poor credit programme has a positive effect on production and livelihood

of poor households. 97% of confirmed loan borrowing is useful for household 87% of loans have a positive impact on the incomes of household and 10% rated as no effect, evaluate the rate negative effects is very low (1%). .

Programmes on active labour market

Percentage of employees to participate in social insurance in the short term total labor force

2003

2005

2010

2011

2012

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

83.73

80.88

67.1

66.1

65.91

84.22

81.7

68.5

67.6

67.27

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Online Coaching for Women Start-up Business

- Women’s demand for this service is getting bigger. - Women need to be gathered by occupation group and online coaching will be held for each group. Each group should have some people who already participated in online coaching to share experiences with the newcomers.

Social assistance

a) Regular social assistance

- The elderly 80+ years old without pension or social insurance benefit

-People with extremely difficult conditions (orphans, single poor elderly)

b) Unexpected social assistance

- Granted for people who have lost their property or lives in case of natural disasters, fire, epidemics, hunger etc).

- Search/ Archive for clinics supported by government

- Online Consultation on Women’s Diseases, Maternal and Child Health

- Online Consultation on Sexual Violence/Abuse

Women’s access to e-services Women’s health

Lessons learned in implementing social protection programs for women MSMEs

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Develop technical documents to guide the application of the monitoring and assessment system at all levels Develop an update database system on social security for women

amend regulations featuring gender discrimination

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• indirect

conduct research and develop services

International organisations provide technical and financial support

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