Ms Babeth Ngoc Han Lefur - Country Director of Oxfam in VIetnam
at the launching event of WEAVE on 12 August 2016
Women’s Economic Empowerment through Agricultural Value Chain Enhancement (WEAVE)
About WEAVE
The Women’s Economic Empowerment through Agricultural Value Chain Enhancement (WEAVE) project is funded by the Australian Government and implemented by a partnership of three international non-governmental organisations – CARE International in Vietnam, Oxfam in Vietnam and SNV in Vietnam. WEAVE supports ethnic minority women’s economic empowerment in pork, cinnamon value chains in Lao Cai province and banana value chain in Bac Kan province. This will be achieved by promoting equality between women and men within households and producer groups, strengthening women and men producers’ skills and bargaining power, and working with business and government decision-makers to improve the policy environment to support producers.
Read more about the project here
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Why Sell It Cheap?
Ms. Tran Thi Lan’s bold idea and confidence helped her to overcome the pork price crisis also created promising economic development opportunities for herself and other families. With the support of the Women’s Economic Empowerment through Agricultural Value Chain Enhancement (WEAVE) project funded by the Australian Government and implemented by a partnershipof three international non-governmental organisations –Oxfam, SNV and CARE, Ms Lan has turned her startup plan to a successful business of processed pork products, which now reach other provinces’ market beyond Lao Cai. Ms Lan also shares her knowledge with other women in the village so they could operate their business as a group.
Leave hesitation and worry behind
The entrepreneurship spirit has motivated Ms Man to lift herself out of poverty and bring job Opportunities to Dao ethnic minority people in one of the poorest and remote areas in Lao Cai province. Thanks to the support of Women’s Economic Empowerment through Agricultural Value Chain Enhancement (WEAVE) project funded by the Australian Government and implemented by a partnership of three international non-governmental organisations – SNV, Oxfam and CARE, Ms Man and other members in the cinnamon production group have successfully established a small-scale processing factory and further founded Nam Det Organic Cinnamon Cooperative. Ms Man proves the fact that once being equipped with sufficient and appropriate resources women can become the key driver in improving the wellbeing of the whole community.
The critical nudge to banana farmers in Bac Kan
Hop Thanh Thanh Van Cooperative was formed in late 2017. The farmer members had not been accustomed to doing business on any scale other than their own household. Just a year later, with technical and financial support from the WEAVE project, they started to form production groups, diversify the products and the markets, and slowly bring more jobs and income for members.
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Australian Deputy Head of Mission to Vietnam visits WEAVE project in Lao Cai
Australian Deputy Head of Mission to Vietnam, Ms. Rebecca Bryant, and colleagues visited the Women Economic Empowerment through Agricultural Value Chain Enhancement (WEAVE) project in Bac Ha District, Lao Cai province on 19 October 2018. Ms. Bryant met with local women and men, provincial and commune leaders to understand the challenges facing ethnic minority women in Northern regions of Vietnam and how Australia’s aid program is addressing those challenges.
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Ms. Pham Thi Quy and her husband, Tay ethnicity, Thanh Van commune, Cho Moi district, Bac Kan province. Photo: Do Manh Cuong/CARE
Ms. Pham Thi Quy and her husband, Tay ethnicity, Thanh Van commune, Cho Moi district, Bac Kan province. Photo: Do Manh Cuong/CARE
Ms. Pham Thi Quy and her husband, Tay ethnicity, Thanh Van commune, Cho Moi district, Bac Kan province.
Photo: Do Manh Cuong/CARE
Members of the Hop Thanh-Thanh Van Cooperative in Thanh Van commune, Cho Moi district, Bac Kan province
present their banana products, 2019. Photo: Do Truong Son/CARE
Ms. Tran Thi Lan and her husband Lu Ngoc Vinh in Bao Nhai Commune, Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province proudly show their business product: pork sausages, 2018.
Photo: Oxfam in Vietnam
Ms. Tran Thi Lan and Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong, Bao Nhai commune, Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province
participate in a startup fair organised among several communes to share experiences and promote
their business, December 2018. Photo: Oxfam in Vietnam
Ms. Mai Thi Huyen and her husband Pham Van Doan, Bao Nhai commune, Bac Ha district read their family plan
that they have created together at a meeting of the village pig raising group. Photo: Oxfam in Vietnam
Women and men join a game at a meeting of the village pig raising group. Photo: Oxfam in Vietnam
