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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
Workers rights drop-in centres
Cambodia
United Sisterhood Alliance
Implementation
N/A
Unions & fair employment
Education (adult)
Cambodia: Creative Industries Support Programme
Cambodia
Millenium Development Goals Achievement Fund
Closed
$1M-$5M
Business development
Business development
Improving Labour Relations for Decent Work and Sustainable Development in the Myanmar Garment Industry
Myanmar
International Labour Organization
Closed
$1M-$5M
Unions & fair employment
Employment conditions; Access to employment; Education (adult); Capacity building
Enhancing Rice Milled Production in Lao PDR
Lao PDR
SNV Netherlands; Helvetas
Closed
N/A
Trade & access to markets
Rural development; Market access; Regulatory action; Food security
Unpacking the Linkages Between Women's Endowments, Economic Opportunity, and Malnutrition (Cambodia)
Cambodia
World Bank
Closed
$100k-$500k
Economic empowerment unspecified
Nutrition; Research; WEE unspecified
Unpacking the Linkages Between Women's Endowments, Economic Opportunity, and Malnutrition (Lao PDR)
Lao PDR
World Bank
Closed
N/A
Economic empowerment unspecified
Nutrition; Research; WEE unspecified
Improved Employment for Women in Cambodia: Constraints and Opportunities (Cambodia)
Cambodia
World Bank
Closed
$100k-$500k
Unions & fair employment
Access to employment; Employment conditions; Research
Improved Employment for Women in Cambodia: Constraints and Opportunities (Lao PDR)
Lao PDR
World Bank
Closed
N/A
Unions & fair employment
Access to employment; Employment conditions; Research
Improved Employment for Women in Cambodia: Constraints and Opportunities (Myanmar)
Myanmar
World Bank
Closed
N/A
Unions & fair employment
Access to employment; Employment conditions; Research
Gender Dimensions of Urbanization: Generating lessons learned from China and Vietnam
Viet Nam
World Bank
Closed
$50k-$100k
Economic empowerment unspecified
Research
Rural Accessibility Mapping
Viet Nam
World Bank
Closed
$100k-$500k
Economic empowerment unspecified
Research
Aspirations and Career Choices
Indonesia
World Bank
Closed
$500k-$1M
Skills training
Education (secondary); Research
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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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