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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
Gender budgeting: Preferences, policies and impact - Gender equality and decentralization
Myanmar
Canadan International Development Research Centre; Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Social protection
Research; Regulatory action
Pathways to economic and political empowerment for ethnic minority women in Myanmar - Gender equality and decentralization
Myanmar
Canadan International Development Research Centre; Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development Limited
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Research; Political participation
F.a: Cooperation for women's economic developpment CWED -Phase II
Cambodia
Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Finnish Church Aid
Implementation
<$50k
Financial services
Capacity building; Business development; Civic participation
F.a: Women's socio-economic reconstruction project
Myanmar
Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Finnish Church Aid
Implementation
<$50k
Financial services
Entrepreneurialism; Capacity building; Post-conflict, Financial services
F.a: Empowering adolescents and young women to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights and be free from violence
Myanmar
Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Plan International Finland Foundation
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Capacity building; Women's rights
CSCF 0460 Attainment of Migrant Women's Rights and Entitlements in Tak Province Through Local Civil Society Organisations and Advocacy Networks
Thailand
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Closed
N/A
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Legal services
Promoting women's engagement to support HMG's moderation and equalities objectives in Malaysia
Malaysia
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Closed
<$50k
Unions & fair employment
Access to employment
Women and Girls in Burma
Myanmar
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights
Women and Girls in Vietnam
Viet Nam
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Finalisation
<$50k
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights
Blue Forests Initiative
Indonesia
UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Implementation
$5M-$10M
Business development
Business development
Sookmyung Women's University UNESCO UNITWIN Program (Indonesia)
Indonesia
Republic of Korea Ministry of Education
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Skills training
Capacity building; Education (higher)
Sookmyung Women's University UNESCO-UNITWIN Program (Cambodia)
Cambodia
Republic of Korea Ministry of Education
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Skills training
Capacity building; Education (higher)
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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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