Nghe An honors typical women in economic development and successful startups in the period 2021 - 2024
On October 28, the Women's Union of Nghe An province held the Award Ceremony of the Provincial Final Competition "Women's Entrepreneurship Day" in 2024 and commended "Typical women in economic development and successful startups" in the period 2021 - 2024.
Attending the program were comrades of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa - Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union, President of the Provincial Women's Union; representatives of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee; Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Social Policy Bank, related accompanying units and commended examples.
This is a meaningful program to honor the efforts and contributions of women in the province in the field of economic development. At the same time, it affirms the important role of women in the construction and development of the homeland and the country.
The program has 50 delegates who are typical examples in economic development and successful startups in the period of 2021-2024. These delegates represent nearly 700,000 members in the whole province who have been selected by the provincial Women's Union at all levels to be commended and honored by the Provincial Women's Union. At the same time, there are 9 authors and representatives of author groups with excellent startup ideas in 2024.
Speaking at the program, Chairwoman of the Provincial Women's Union Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa said that in the period of 2021 - 2024, the Women's Union at all levels has coordinated with all levels and sectors to actively implement many comprehensive solutions to strongly promote the entrepreneurial spirit of women across the province.
This activity aims to realize the breakthrough "Supporting women in economic development, starting businesses, and successfully starting businesses" of the Congress of Women's Delegates of Nghe An province for the 2021-2026 term and the Project "Supporting women in starting businesses for the 2017-2025 period" approved by the Prime Minister.
Regarding the "Women's Entrepreneurship Day" Contest in 2024 organized by the Nghe An Provincial Women's Union, in nearly the past year, there have been more than 500 ideas participating in the contest organized by women's unions at all levels in the province in different forms. After the selection round from all levels of the union, by June 10, 2024, there were 42 ideas in the preliminary round. In the end, the Provincial Women's Union issued a Decision to recognize the results and award prizes to the 9 best ideas.
The implementation of the Project "Propaganda, mobilization, support for women to build OCOP products, promote, connect consumption of goods contributing to local economic development in the period of 2023-2027" of the Provincial People's Committee has also been actively and effectively deployed by women's unions at all levels. Up to now, unions at all levels have supported the establishment and effective maintenance of 24 cooperatives managed by women, 232 cooperative groups, linkage groups and 744 newly established women's enterprises have been consulted and supported to develop their businesses.
In order to promote and support women members in economic development, the association at all levels has proactively exploited programs and projects, effectively maintained loan entrustment activities from the Bank for Social Policies, credit activities with the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; and coordinated activities with the TYM organization.
Through this, more than 100,000 members are currently borrowing capital sources, with a total of more than 5,000 billion VND and 83,997 households with poor and near-poor women are being helped by the association. Of these, 2,297 households have women escaping poverty and near-poverty, thereby contributing to improving the quality of life for members and women.
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