Speaking at the Conference, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tu said: to achieve the millennial goals, especially the gender equality goal in ethnic minority area which is hard to solve since woman and children have to face the inequality, poverty, diseases, etc. everyday. The goal of Conference is to share the result from the investigation of socio-economic situation of 53 ethnic minority groups in 2015 from expert view to have a better solution to reach the gender equality goal in ethnic minority area.

Also, in the conference, Mrs. Cáit Moran shared: Vietnam and Ireland had 10 years working together in developing ethnic minority area. However, this area still has many difficulties, ethnic minority people have many barriers, especially ethnic minority women who suffer many disadvantages. Ireland will undertake to associate with Vietnam in building specific policies, plans and programs to bring the equality and develop women, especially ethnic minority women.

Mrs. Elisa Fernandez, Head of UN Women office in Vietnam congratulated CEMA in particular, Vietnam in general on the achievements involved women in ethnic minority groups. However, these programs not solve all the inequality of ethnic minority women. Vietnamese Government needs to invest resources, come up with solution to ensure a better development for ethnic minority women. UN Women will continue to support Vietnam to make sure that ethnic minority women can equal participate in every fields.

At the Conference, the representatives together exchanged results of the data analysis Report in planning ethnic policy related to gender equality in ethnic minority area. Furthermore, the representatives found solutions to increase the chance of development for women and girls in ethnic minority community. Some of the solutions are: increasing the role of multi-media to eliminate the preconception; increasing the resources; helping ethnic minority women by providing an access to market, jobs, etc.