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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
Promoting gender equality through the Rule of Law and Good Governance
Lao PDR
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights
Strategic Advisory for follow-up of the ''ASEAN Regional Conference of Senior Officials on Sharing of Good Practices on Social Protection for Women in Enterprise Development'' under the READI Facility Human Right Programme
Indonesia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Other unspecified
Finalisation
<$50k
Social protection
Research; Social protection; Entrepreneurialsim
Empowering Rural women's networks to lead change for a better quality of life for women and families
Thailand
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Skills training
Rural development; Civic participation
Gender audit to EU bilateral programmes in Cambodia
Cambodia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Private sector institution unspecified
Finalisation
$50k-$100k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Administration; Research; Gender training/mainstreaming
Gender Analysis for Thailand and Malaysia (Thailand)
Thailand
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Private sector institution unspecified
Finalisation
$50k-$100k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research
Gender Analysis for Thailand and Malaysia (Malaysia)
Malaysia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Private sector institution unspecified
Closed
N/A
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research
Assessment of gender equality in the Philippines and provision of training support
Philippines
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Private sector institution unspecified
Finalisation
<$50k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research; Gender training/mainstreaming
Protecting Women's Human Rights Defenders Through Expansion of Public Space for Debate and Discussion, Capacity Building and Engagement with Critical Communities.
Malaysia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Partner country org unspecified
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Civic participation; Women's rights
Women's voices
Lao PDR
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; International org unspecified
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights; Civic participation
Youth Voices for Girls' Rights and Gender Equality
Indonesia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights
Training on Gender Mainstreaming in project management and Communications Planning
Philippines
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Private sector institution unspecified
Finalisation
<$50k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Gender training/mainstreaming
Reforsa Hamutuk
Timor-Leste
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Social protection
Violence against women
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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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