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
Job creation
Preferential
credit
Social insurance
Compulsory
social insurance
Sickness
Maternity
Vocational
training
Job seeking
support
(domestic
and abroad)
Public
employment
Poverty
reduction
Employment
injury and
occupational
diseases
Social assistance
Regular social
assistance
Take caring
at social
protection
institutions
and at
communities
Basic social
service
Education
Vocation
Housing
Clean water
Pension
Cash
transfer
Survivor
Voluntory social
insurance
Pension
Survivor
Unemployment
insurance
Supplemental
pension
insurance
Emergency
social assistance
Information
Existing programs on social protection
for women in MSMEs
- Vocational training for women (including startup 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
Labor relations in MSMEs
50
46
45
44
40
40
35
29
30
24.5
female
25
men
20
12.5
15
10
5
0
wage employment
workers in jobs and unpaid
family
self-employment
Welfare by sex of the owner or manager interprises
Women business owners
Contribution
for social
insurance
insurance
Contri
bution
for
health
insura
nce
Contribut
ion for
unemploy
ment
insurance
Direct
compensation
for
occupational
accidents and
diseases
Men business owners
Sick
leave
Paid
maternal
leave
Unpaid
maternal
leave
Paid
maternal
leave
Paid
annual
leave
Source: Charactertics of the Vietnames business environment eviden from a SME survey in 2013. CIEM-Dos-Ilssa
retirem
ent
lump sum
Death
Active labour market policy
• Vocational Training
• Retraining
• Credit
• Labour Mobility Support
• Job Introduction
• Temporary/public work
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Programmes on active labour market
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%). .
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Percentage of employees to participate in social
insurance in the short term total labor force
67.27
2012
65.91
67.6
2011
66.1
68.5
2010
67.1
81.7
2005
80.88
84.22
2003
83.73
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
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70
80
90
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).
Women’s access to e-services
Women’s health
- Search/ Archive for clinics
supported by government
- Online Consultation on
Women’s Diseases,
Maternal and Child Health
- Online Consultation on
Sexual Violence/Abuse
Lessons learned in implementing social
protection programs for women MSMEs
campaigns and raising awareness
among relevant agencies of gender
integration in social security
•organise training in gender integration for relevant officials
•enhance inspection and supervision, and penalisation of
violations
Institutionalise the “System of
monitoring and assessment of gender
equality
•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
conduct research and develop services
International organisations provide
technical and financial support
•direct
•indirect
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