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Gender in Country Partnership Strategies - The Vietnam experience February 22, 2012

Gender in Country Partnership Strategies - The Vietnam experience February 22, 2012. Mette Frost Bertelsen , CPS Co-TTL and Gender Focal Point. Brief Overview of Gender in Vietnam.

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Gender in Country Partnership Strategies - The Vietnam experience February 22, 2012

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  1. Gender in Country Partnership Strategies- The Vietnam experienceFebruary 22, 2012 Mette Frost Bertelsen, CPS Co-TTL and Gender Focal Point

  2. Brief Overview of Gender in Vietnam • Vietnam has made significant progress in gender equality (legal framework, education, infant and maternal mortality, participation, etc.) • Important challenges remain, both socially and economically (health insurance coverage, employment, education gaps for ethnic minorities, poverty among widows, etc.) • Policy actions are needed to address these challenges in the context of an economy making the transition from low to middle income

  3. Vietnam CPS and Gender • CPS process launched in fall of 2010 • 2 gender initiatives informed the CPS: • Vietnam Country Gender Assessment, conducted by the Bank in collaboration with other development partners and Government • Country Gender Action Plan – the Bank’s internal assessment of how it could address gender issues more effectively in the CPS program • In addition, gender issues came up in various rounds of internal and external consultations

  4. Vietnam Country Gender Assessment 2011 • Overview of Gender Issues • Gender, Poverty and Well-Being • Gender and Employment • Gender and Political Participation • Conclusions & Policy Recommendations

  5. Vietnam Country Gender Action Plan (CGAP) • Developed in spring of 2011 • Informed by “Gender Inventory Report” and consultations with team, GoV, Dev Partners • Overview of gender issues • Current gender related efforts in Vietnam: GoV and DPs • World Bank and Gender: goals, current activities, planned actions, resources • Results Matrix

  6. Vietnam CPS 2012-2016 Framework • 3 Pillars: • Competitiveness • Sustainability • Opportunities • 3 Cross-cutting themes: • Governance • Resilience • Gender • Gender “Coverage” in the CPS: • Section on gender in ‘Poverty and Inequality’ diagnostics • Description of how gender will be a cross-cutting theme • Box with example of gender mainstreaming in project • Annex on gender issues • Gender milestones included in CPS Results Framework

  7. What CPS says on Gender The Bank’s support to gender in the CPS has four key elements: • To support Government in improving the implementation of the Law on Gender Equality and the National Strategy on Gender Equality, in part by building gender awareness and capacity within relevant ministries; • To support the development of a national gender data system by building on the recent development of the National Gender Statistical Indicator System; • To apply a gender lens to identify opportunities to integrate gender more systematically into Bank operations, including by making the systematic collection of data disaggregated by gender a guiding principle; and • To help close the knowledge gap through quantitative and qualitative research on gender issues. All of these areas of action are cross-cutting in nature and impact.

  8. Monitoring Progress – example from CPS Matrix

  9. What Worked/Pitfalls • Analytical underpinnings important, but CGAP or similar plan with concrete actions even more important • Consultations with team to get as much ownership as possible – Gender Sector Champions? • Strong support from CD, sector management • Good coordination with DPs – focus on Comp Advantages • Helped that Gender is IDA16 theme • Pitfalls: • Risk of overpromising – how to make CPS living document • Mainstreaming risk – “everywhere is nowhere”

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