This policy brief draws on the research report “Women’s Leadership in Viet Nam: Leveraging a Resource Untapped”, commissioned by the Women’s Leadership project of UNDP Viet Nam and the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Based on an analysis of 37 Vietnamese and global leadership programmes, the brief recommends how to best design an effective leadership capacity building initiative that will increase women’s representation in the political and public sector in Viet Nam. The policy brief also sets out the main barriers to women’s leadership growth. It is important that these barriers are understood and taken into account for any capacity building initiative to be successful.