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The table below lists all South East Asia-based development assistance programs in operation from 2008 to present, which have a primary focus on women's economic empowerment.


The drop-down filters can be used to narrow the program search by Country, Thematic Area, and Project Value. Additional program details can be found by clicking on a project title in the list. 

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Each program has been categorised to one or more Thematic Areas, or 'sub-categories' of women's economic empowerment. These Thematic Areas identify the facets of women's economic empowerment that each program aims to address. The first eight Thematic Areas were developed by Pereznieto and Taylor*, and these broad themes account for the majority of programs in the present dataset. The include: 1) Financial services, 2) Business development services, 3) Skills training, 4) Asset provision (both financial and non-financial), 5) Social protection, 6) Unions and fair employment, 7) Trade and access to markets, 8) Regulatory and legal frameworks.  

 

 

In addition, two further thematic areas were added to encompass programs that address (9) Social Reproductive Labour, and (10) Gender training, research and mainstreaming, as these goals appear commonly among the listed programs, and are often integral to the achievement of women's empowerment. Finally, an additional theme - Economic empowerment unspecified (11) - is applied to encompass all programs that make mention of women's economic empowerment, but which do not provide sufficient detail to make a more specific thematic determination.

Programme Title
Country
Accountable org
Activity status
Project value
Thematic area
Project keywords
Empowering the Marginalized
Malaysia
German Federal Foreign Office
Closed
<$50k
Skills training
Education (vocational); Business development
Development of rural Aquaculture through entrepreneurship in women
Myanmar
Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo / Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Business development
Entrepreneurialism; Rural development
Gender Equality and support to women micro-business in Chin State and neighbouring areas (GEWE-IT)
Myanmar
Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo / Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Business development
Entrepreneurialism; Gender training/mainstreaming
The Project for Women Assistance Center Establishment to protect vulnerable women and children from human trafficking
Thailand
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Education (vocational)
The Project for Creation of Female Farmers' Network for community selfreliance
Thailand
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Business development
Business development; Rural development
The Project for Women's Income Generation based on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy in Phaisali District, Nakhon Sawan Province
Thailand
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Business development
Business development
The Project for Construction of Orphanage Building and Providing Facilities of Woman's Job Training in Blitar Regency, East Java
Indonesia
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Education (vocational)
May Doe Kabar Rural Women's Network
Myanmar
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Closed
$100k-$500k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Civic participation; Women's rights
Women Media Project
Myanmar
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Closed
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Education (professional development); Communications
Workshop for Female Entrepreneurs
Philippines
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Implementation
<$50k
Business development
Entrepreneurialism
BAN Promoting women's rights in Laos
Lao PDR
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Women's rights
Impact investment and financial literacy
Indonesia
Amartha Mikro Fintek
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Micro credit; Education (adult); Entrepreneurialism
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*Pereznieto, Paola and Taylor, Georgia (2014). A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls. Gender and Development, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 233-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2014.920976

Database of Programs

2023

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