Prevention of violence against women/girls so as to build safe-spaces for women in educational universities in Viet Nam

The objectives of this research were to address these gaps and to support gender-sensitive teaching and awareness in teacher training within universities that can change Higher Education (HE) environments and change teaching and educational activities in schools. The project had four key aims to address:

1. Conducting a detailed needs assessment and analysis of current teacher-training programmes to identify how gender sensitive they are, such as if the programme raises awareness of women’s rights and if the textbooks or curriculum promote non-traditional gender roles.
2. Evaluate the environment and current situation of gender inequality and GBV in schools by engaging with officials, lecturers, staff and female students at five pedagogical universities from all three regions of Viet Nam (North, Central and South).
3. Develop and implement training materials on gender-related issues and gender equality (prevention and response to GBV) for students and lecturers at pedagogical universities in Viet Nam.
4. Make recommendations to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), as well as HEIs more widely, on the implementation of mainstreaming curricula on gender, gender equality and prevention of violence against women/girls (at all levels of education, but especially for pedagogical university students).

To address these aims, and to improve the environment within universities in Viet Nam, establishing a safe-space for students, lecturers and staff’s physicality and mentality, the partners from the UK and Viet Nam had run in-person and online training workshops; and had a roundtable policy table with representatives of MOET. This research paper provides the findings from these training workshops and evaluation of the training workshops.