Vice president of the Vietnam Women’s Union Tran Thi Huong signed a cooperation agreement for the 2020-2022 period with CEO of Nestlé Vietnam Binu Jacob
As part of its efforts to build a more inclusive and diverse company, Nestlé has made great strides in expanding the number of women in management roles. The Gender Balance Acceleration Plan has also been implemented to increase the proportion of women in top management positions.
Specifically, Nestlé has been training its managers and employees in unconscious bias training and sexual harassment prevention. The company also introduced a flexible working environment policy to build a collaborative and energising work climate and recognise the diversity of employees.
Nestlé trains female team leaders of coffee farmers under the NESCAFÉ Plan project, contributing to the gender balance and empowering women
But the company’s contribution to gender equality goes beyond the internal company to promoting women’s empowerment in the community. Nestlé Vietnam has cooporated with the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) to implement the “Nestlé Accompanies Women” programme. Launched in 2020, it will continue to expand to all provinces in the country. So far, the programme has attracted 4,000 female members in 700 communes of 10 cities and provinces nationawide, creating positive impacts on their lives.
Training on nutritional knowledge and sales skills are implemented within the framework of the programme “Nestlé Accompanies Women”
The programme has helped equip women in rural areas with skills to promote and spread nutrition education in rural areas and also to help them gain financial independence and security.
According to vice president of the VWU, Tran Thi Huong, the programme shares the same purposes with the union and govenment in supporting disadvantaged women.
“We highly appreciated the practical communication and training activities of the Nestlé programme to improve women’s capacity, knowledge, and skills. to support them building happy and healthy families in the construction of new rural areas and civilised cities,” Huong shared.
Another example of gender balance and women’s empowerment throughout the entire value chain is the NESCAFÉ Coffee Plan, in which Nestlé works with 20,000 farming households in the Central Highlands. As a result, 30 per cent of leaders who train other coffee farmers are women and have increased their incomes by over 30 per cent.
After two years since the signing of the MOU on Public Private Collaboration towards Circular Economy in Plastic Waste Management in Vietnam, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Dow Chemical Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Dow Vietnam), SCG Group and Unilever Vietnam International Co., Ltd. held a workshop to evaluate the results of cooperation achieved in the past two years, welcomed 24 new members, and set out major focuses to be implemented in the coming years, in order to make practical contributions to the "National Action Plan on ocean plastic waste management to 2030" and the "Scheme on strengthening plastic waste management in Vietnam" of the Prime Minister.
Binh Dai is one of the three coastal districts of Ben Tre province, but not as favourable as Ba Tri and Thanh Phu districts. Due to the topographical structure, Binh Dai often suffers from saltwater intrusion into the communes, in the middle of the island such as Loc Thuan, Vang Quoi Dong. Therefore, the transportation and economic exchange of the district with the surrounding areas becomes difficult.
C.P. Vietnam Corporation, an overseas operation of Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods), joined hands with partners in Vietnam’s seafood supply chain to announce the success of The Vung Tau multispecies trawl fishery improvement project (FIP) in Vung Tau province, which has been accepted into the MarinTrust Improver Program as part of its multispecies pilot.
27 January 2022, On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, representatives from AES Vietnam visited and presented Tet gifts to a number of poor and near-poor households and students in the provinces of Quang Ninh and Binh Thuan. This is an annual program implemented by AES Vietnam, demonstrating the company’s sincere care towards the poor and respect for the country’s traditional customs. The gifts were presented with the attendance of representatives from local authorities, beneficiary households, and AES Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Today Friday, February 25th, 2022, the Final Showcase of the USAID BUILD-IT & Dow Vietnam STEM Program: Engineering Projects in Community Service was held. More than 150 participating STEM students from six engineering and technology universities concluded their five-month program following the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) curriculum model. EPICS is an internationally recognized model of service learning where students not only learn by doing, but also learn by creating prototypes to address social challenges. Teams from Da Nang University of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City won top awards for their innovations of rehabitation gloves, Assamica tea and diagnostic software for breast cancer.
Ho Chi Minh, January 7th, 2022: In 2021, the ASEAN leading conglomerate SCG and Long Son Petrochemicals Co., Ltd (LSP), a subsidiary of SCG Chemicals, continues to reinforce its commitment to sustainable development in Vietnam by implementing the Waste Rescue project to raise the young generation's awareness about waste segregation. Previously, SCG and LSP have piloted waste segregation at source at Long Son primary schools in Ba Ria-Vung Tau to educate students in waste segregation and call for the response of families and schools so that the concept of waste segregation can be replicated in the community. Continuing the success of the previous year, this project is part of the enterprise’s efforts to tie up with the Vietnamese young generation to adopt a circular economy to solve the problem of mismanaged waste in the country.
• Mondelez Kinh Do ranked at 10th place among companies in Consumer goods (FMCG good and non-food category) and 33rd place among companies in all sectors in the list of “100 Vietnam Best Places To Work”. • Mondelez Kinh Do was remarkably recognized for the first time as “Top 10 Representatives with Happiness at Work 2021”.
• Top 100 sustainable companies in 2021 (based on the Corporate Sustainability Index - CSI) led by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in coordination with Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Recognition Award by Amcham Hanoi (American Chamber of Commerce) in Hanoi for fourth consecutive year and Amcham Vietnam Cares Award • Top 10 Reputable Food Companies for three consecutive years (2019 – 2021) announced by Vietnam Report in collaboration with VietnamNet
HCMC, December 2021 - Tet is always an important and special festival for every Vietnamese. This year's Tet season becomes even more special when it closes a year of many difficulties and fluctuations. Although there are still many worries and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, everyone still tries to have the most possible meaningful Tet holiday with their love ones. This year, Mondelez Kinh Do not only brings world-class quality products to consumers, but also spreads optimism and once again inspire millions of Vietnamese people to celebrate a memorable Tet.
With the vision of "Kitchen of the World", as a leading company in agro-industrial and food business, C.P. Vietnam Corporation (CPV) has been and will be determined to bring high-quality food, nutritious, quality and safety to consumers based on food safety standards, environmentally friendly materials and socially responsible business operation strategies.
