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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
Information and women for development in Lao PDR
Lao PDR
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Public Sector Institution unspecified
Finalisation
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Education (professional development); ICT
Building Partnerships among Government, Parliament and Civil Society in Support for Pro-Poor and Gender-Responsive Budget Initiatives in South Sulawesi
Indonesia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Social protection
Social protection
Raising women's voices: Advocating for women's rights in East Timor
Timor-Leste
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights; Legal services
Improving food security for women and rural poor in Mondulkiri province (IFWP-MP)
Cambodia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Business development
Food security; Rural development
Young Women in Business - Rural Cambodia
Cambodia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Skills training
Access to employment; Capacity building
Improving the Livelihoods of People With Disabilities and Especially Women through Peer Training for Employment
Lao PDR
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Education (vocational); Disability
Advancing social and economic empowerment of female migrant workers through development and implementation of gender-sensitive initiatives in Binh Duong and Dong Nai Provinces
Viet Nam
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$1M-$5M
Social protection
Social protection; Public health; Social services
Promotion and Protection of Women's Rights and Socio-Economic Empowerment
Cambodia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$1M-$5M
Social protection
Social protection; Legal services; Civic participation; Women's rights
Young Women's Economic Empowerment
Indonesia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Access to employment; Education (vocational); Access to finance
Partnerships for Poverty Reduction and Women's Empowerment in Dakcheung Project (PWED)
Lao PDR
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$1M-$5M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Rural development
MIGRA-SAFE: Safe Labour Migration for Vulnerable CambodianMigrant Workers to Thailand.
Thailand
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$500k-$1M
Unions & fair employment
Trafficking in persons; Employment conditions
New Horizon Hotel
Philippines
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Other unspecified
Finalisation
<$50k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Gender training/mainstreaming
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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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