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Participatory poverty monitoring in rural communities in Viet Nam 44 FIGURE 1.4. Participation of women in market chains in 2011
Five-year Synthesis Report Part 1: Poverty Trends and Key Themes of Rural Poverty Reduction More ethnic minority women participate in buying and selling than five years ago. The main reasons are improvements in infrastructure, communication and information; the emergence of more markets, shops, and street vendors; and improved education for young ethnic minority women. 45 In Xy commune-Quang Tri a new asphalted road (completed in 2009) running through the commune brought an increase in the number of shops and street vendors in the commune, providing Van Kieu women with opportunities to access markets. More women now understand and play a role in managing household finances. In Ban Lien-Lao Cai, ethnic minority women take are more involved in buying and selling. In 2007, H’Mong men often kept money and undertook transactions. However, by 2011 many H’Mong women knew how to keep money and sell and buy small things worth less than 100,000 VND. In Tay villages, in 2008, Ban Lien market, established in the commune centre, helped improve the market participation (Box 1.9). BOX 1.9. Impacts of the newly built market on women in Ban Lien commune Ban Lien (Bac Ha, Lao Cai) is a remote commune. Before 2007, women had little contact with the outside world. Since 2008, Ban Lien market has provided opportunities for women in the commune: • Women spend less time going to market: “In the past, we had to walk to Bac Ha in the middle of the night, lighting torches, as flashlights were not available, and the road was difficult to walk. Today it is very convenient, buying and selling in the commune. If we have money we can buy everything. Fish and meat are available every day”. • People have more opportunity to buy and sell products: “In the past, there was only a butcher. He forced us to sell tea to him at a low price while selling meat to us at high price. Now that the market is established, there are more traders and we can sell our tea at a higher price and meat, seasoning powder, and soap is cheaper”. • Women can sell many products in the market: “In the past households with surplus vegetables gave them away as they could not be sold. Today, they can sell in the market to new households who are not yet able to grow vegetables”. • Increasing accessibility to market information of women: “Today women can update information very quickly. People talk to each other: “I can sell tea at a price of 50,000 VND while you only sold it for 40,000 VND “. We know what prices are doing”. • Improving capacity of communication and calculation of women: “Now only women go to the market. Women can take hold of more money because they sell tea at the market. Some, who did not know about money, now know about it. At the market we can talk to each other more and more”. Domestic violence There are fewer cases of physical violence at all monitoring points. In 2007, in communes such as Thuan Hoa-Tra Vinh, Phuoc Thanh, Phuoc Dai-Ninh Thuan, Xy- Quang Tri and Cu Hue-Dak Lak, domestic violence was common. In some cases women required medical treatment. By 2011, local people and officials agreed that physical violence was on the decline, with fewer cases brought to the commune headquarters for settlement. In Pa Dong village, Thanh Xuong commune, Dien Bien in 2008, 6 domestic violence cases were brought to the commune for settlement. In 2011, there was only one case. In Cu Hue, Dak Lak, there were nine cases of domestic violence cases in 2009 and none in 2011. Similarly, in Thuan Hoa, Tra Vinh, there were seven recorded cases in 2007 and none in 2011.
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