Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Enhancing the Position of Women Working as Waste Pickers in Hue City.
Project duration: 20.10.2023 – 30.06.2024
Through continuous implementation activities, the Project aims to foster a shift in awareness and behavior among the women participating and their family members regarding gender equality. Specifically, it seeks to make men understand the need to share household responsibilities with women, thereby elevating the status of women both within the family and in society. Men should perceive their role as sharing burdens rather than merely helping women
with household chores. The concept of balancing work outside the home to earn living with household responsibilities; applies not only to women but also to men as well.
Briefly list out activities planned for this project
- Researching policies on gender equality in Vietnam in general and in Hue in particular
- Selecting women who work as waste pickers in Hue city to participate in the project (15 people)
- Organizing women’s participatory research (using Feminist Participatory Action Research – FPAR)
- Celebrating International Women’s Day (March 8 th ) for women participating in the project, their husbands and their children
- Establishing the club “Husbands Care for Wives – Men Sharing Household Chores with Women” and organizing club activities.
- Developing a photobook.
- Conducting a survey on how men share household chores with women who are in waste collection jobs.
