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Kami sangat senang mengumumkan pemenang Penghargaan WEPs UN Women 2020 Asia-Pasifik Asia-Pasifik yang pertama kalinya!

Selamat kepada semua pemenang yang telah berkomitmen untuk memajukan kesetaraan gender dan pemberdayaan ekonomi perempuan. Para juara gender dari berbagai negara, sektor, dan bidang ini masing-masing diakui atas Komitmen Kepemimpinan, Kepemimpinan Pemuda, Tempat Kerja yang Inklusif Gender, Pasar Responsif Gender, Keterlibatan Komunitas dan Industri, dan Aksi COVID-19 mereka yang luar biasa.

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Le Hong Thuy Tien

President, IMEX PAN PACIFIC CO., LTD

Mrs. Le Hong Thuy Tien became President of Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG) in 2004 and has since transformed IPPG to be Vietnam’s largest merchandising enterprise - with 25,000 employees, 35 subsidiaries, and USD 542 million in revenue 2016. The Group is a Vietnamese distributor of luxury and mid-tier fashion, perfumes and cosmetics, jewelry and watches, wine and liquors, and tobacco from more than 100 international brands. Mrs. Le has supported and empowered women’s equality and professional development in the workplace. IPPG promotes gender equality in business activities, such as in recruitment processes and in their compensation and promotion policy. Imex has made significant progress in 2020, achieving their goal of a 25% increase in the number of women in the Group. Now, more than 60% of the Group’s employees are women and women occupy 70% of the leading managerial positions. Imex aims to empower women in engineering and technical management roles in the future.  

Intel Products Vietnam Co.,Ltd

Intel Vietnam strives to be an inclusive organization that leads by focusing on psychological safety and physical safety for all employees to perform at their fullest potential.  The Diversity & Inclusion program at Intel Vietnam creates a safe space of trust and authenticity for all and builds a community of inclusion advocates by using the actionable tools and resources.

Unilever Vietnam International Company Limited

The mission of “making sustainable living commonnplace” has reflected in not only Unilever Vietnam’s corporate sustainable development programs but also in their purpose-led, future-fit brands’ initiatives. Gender equality has been a social commitment that brands at Unilever have focused on throughout the years.

Unilever Vietnam’s championship at the 2021 WEPs Awards for the “Gender-responsive Marketplace” category celebrates their brands’ effort in the women’s empowerment journey through economically empowering women with Sunlight’s campaign “Women Do Business,” inspiring young girls to follow their careers with Sunsilk’s “Dream Too Good to Hold Back” campaign and accompanying women to smash appearance stereotypes and build confidence with Dove’s “My Hair, My Say.”

BRG Group., JSC

BRG Group’s initiative is to develop a comprehensive strategy to promote the professions and services that enhance women’s strengths. BRG Group is deploying nearly 100 BRGMart supermarkets, of which 70% of employees are women. In disadvantaged areas, BRG develops golf services to create jobs for thousands of female workers with the female rate accounting for 95%. To ensure “No women left behind”, BRG has spent nearly 22 million USD on the women start-up project, promoting cooperation with woman-owned business enterprises, and SeABank has developed SeALady visa cards for female customers and financing packages for woman-owned business enterprises. BRG Group has proactively implement the ASEAN Business Awards 2020 to encourage and honor outstanding female entrepreneurs in ASEAN community.

Soren Roed Pedersen

General Director, Julie Sandlau Vietnam Co. Ltd

Julie Sandlau Vietnam (JSV) made the commitment to create a sustainable livelihood for women in the locality where their factories are located by empowering them. Through time, JSV noticed that goldsmiths are mostly women, while management positions are usually occupied by men. With a commitment to change that picture, JSV providetraining programs for women and opportunities for them to advance in their careers by implementing new policies, such as: flexible working arrangements for employees in leadership positions, which focus on reducing work-life conflict for recruited women managers. Now, nearly 80% of managers are women in the last 6 years (from the time the new policy was issued).

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Johan Kenneth Sundberg

General Director, Fine Scandinavia Co.,Ltd

Fine Scandinavia leadership direction is to implement gender equality and women's empowerment for improving the business and achieving inclusive sustainable development. The leader directs the company to facilitate the enhancement of women’s voice and integration with the aim of improving systems and structures that act as obstacles to women’s economic participation.The leadership has established programs and goals to enhance gender equality and responsibility, and always create conditions for employees to participate in these programs to improve knowledge and responsibility.

Olam Vietnam Limited

Building a gender-inclusive workplace is one of the vital people strategies at Olam Vietnam.

Olam has always maintained a commitment to gender balance in the total workforce with 55 percent women. Olam has a sharp focus on talent development towards having more women in leadership roles. As a factor remains high on their agenda, the company innovated various approaches to equal recruitment, promoting women’s career development & leadership. Some featuring programs are Career Return-ship Program, ofi Care, Woman in Agriculture & Food, GROW Chapter, GLOW (Globally Lifting Olam Women). Moreover, Olam has made IDEO (Inclusion, Diversity, and Equality at Olam) - a key organizational prerogative to shape their inclusion and diversity agenda in action.

Phu Nhuan Jewelry Joint Stock Company (PNJ)

PNJ currently has more than 6,000 employees in which women account for more than 60%. In particular, more than 60% of senior leaders are women. PNJ has always promoted diversity and equality in the working culture. Simultaneously, PNJ has been the leading flag in association formation, association of women-owned business associations nationwide to share resources, share management experiences, and connect trade transactions, thereby forming a business community with sustainable growth, enhancing the position and reputation of female entrepreneurs in the marketplace. Particularly, in 2021 PNJ co-operated to run the program of “To Be Together in Labor” to help more than 2,000 poor pregnant women to overcome difficulties during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Nguyen Thi Dong

CEO, Orchid Joint Stock Company

From 2012 until now, Hoa Lan Joint Stock Company has provided monthly allowances to 150 poor women, children, orphans, and martyrs' mothers, with a value of nearly 55 million VND/month. From 2013 to now, the company has spent nearly 1.2 billion VND per year on average to support the construction of a loving home for poor women, monthly patronage, support for people affected by natural disasters, donation of savings books, savings, health insurance, and warm blankets for preschools.

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Hanel Production and Import- Export Joint Stock Company

The company acknowledges that there are many female and male employees in the company's internal force who have the ability and desire to advance. Gender equality goals are implemented in the company's recruitment, training, and appointment processes. With the slogan "professional at work, sound in lifestyle," at least half of the management team is female, offering a mechanism to develop and push employees' maximum potential. By creating a gender-equal working environment and stabilizing the workforce, HANELPT has achieved an annual growth rate of 20-30% on average. The company's female employees account for 75% of the overall workforce. The rate of female managers in the company annually increases by 10-15%. The employee involvement and bond is always at a high level, ensuring job security and income for workers during the pandemic. Currently, the company has completed its management system, which complies with international standards such as ISO9001, ISO14001, IATF16949, financial cash flow management, and environmental protection. HanelPT is gradually affirming the company motto “Supplying products and services to satisfy customers”. The Company is currently the level-1 vender of multinational corporations on a global scale.

*The UN Women Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards represents recognition of exemplary company efforts for gender equality and is limited to a designated category and a specific location and time period. Awarded organizations, alongside their products and services, receiving awards are not endorsed or affiliated with UN Women or WeEmpowerAsia and being recognized as an Awardee does not constitute a partnership. Claims, statements, or endorsements made by awardees are solely those of the individual or organization and do not represent official policies or positions of UN Women.

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