Phan Thiet: Enhancing women's status from Project 939

New rural women confidently start businesses

In the new rural commune of Phong Nam, Ms. Luu Thi Xuan An (residing in Xuan Tai village) is a typical example of benefiting from participating in the project. She herself is an official at the Binh Thuan Agricultural Seed Center, so she has taken advantage of her knowledge of plant biotechnology, including cordyceps. When the Women's Union of the commune implemented Project 939, she boldly participated in the project with many different ideas, thereby giving birth to the brand Luu An Cordyceps. Currently, the above model has helped her have a stable income. According to Ms. An, Project 939 has created conditions for women in the commune who want to start a business to boldly develop business ideas, and join the locality in implementing the movement "joining hands and hearts to build new rural areas".

**Ms. Luu Thi Xuan An started her business with a model of cultivating cordyceps mushrooms.**

Coming to Thien Nghiep, also a new rural commune with more than 2,000 women whose main occupations are trading, raising livestock, growing crops, doing business and working as employees in neighboring service and tourism companies. Ms. Le Thi Thu Hai - President of the Women's Union of Thien Nghiep commune shared that due to this characteristic, the locality has created conditions for women to access information about startups, introducing products and goods; good models for women to access small and medium business models. Every year, feasible startup ideas from cadres, members, and women are reviewed and surveyed and guided to write ideas to send to the Women's Union of Phan Thiet City for appraisal and submission to the "Women's Startup Day" contest. In addition to participating in the contest, the locality also introduces and promotes key products at fairs, markets, and provincial and municipal women's startup festivals such as rice paper, coconut, clean organic products, pigeons, etc.

Awarding decisions to individuals and groups with outstanding achievements when participating in Project 939.

Assert your position in society

Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee - Nguyen Nam Long assessed that after 8 years of implementing the project, the city has promoted its effectiveness, contributed to improving the lives, helped women to be bold and confident in starting a business and is "a premise for women to rise up in life, affirming their position in society". According to the assessment of the Phan Thiet City Women's Union, Project 939 has promoted the role of women in economic development, the method of supporting women aims to change awareness, arouse the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of women in starting a business.

Results from 2017 - 2025 include some highlights such as: supporting 40 products established by female business households, managed to meet OCOP product standards from 3 to 4 stars; supporting the establishment of 3 cooperatives with 3 female members as management board; 8 cooperative groups; supporting 294 women to start a business... To achieve this result, in addition to the efforts of individuals, there is a significant role of the city's women's association at all levels in supporting training, capital, connection, and product consumption.

Ms. Pham Thi Ngoc Yen - Vice President of the Phan Thiet City Women's Union said that in the coming time, the City Women's Union will maintain, consolidate and expand the results and effective models and accompany cooperatives and groups owned by women so that they can operate stably and sustainably. According to Ms. Yen, although Project 939 has ended, it is necessary to continue to allocate adequate budget resources for programs to support women starting a new business...

Source: https://baobinhthuan.com.vn/phan-thiet-nang-cao-vi-the-chi-em-tu-de-an-939-130864.html