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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
Girls' Advocacy Alliance Philippines
Philippines
Plan International Netherlands
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Violence against women; Access to employment; Gender training/mainstreaming
MA-Livelihood project Myanmar
Myanmar
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Implementation
$50k-$100k
Economic empowerment unspecified
WEE unspecified
FA-Integrated community livelihood development
Myanmar
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Implementation
<$50k
Financial services
Capacity building; Micro credit; Public health; Environment protection
Decent Work in Cambodia
Cambodia
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Unions & fair employment
Employment conditions
Decent Work in Thailand
Thailand
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Unions & fair employment
Employment conditions
Decent Work in Philippines
Philippines
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Unions & fair employment
Employment conditions
Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Program (GEWEP) III - Myanmar
Myanmar
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Access to finance
Philippines: Business Development Mentoring for Women
Philippines
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
<$50k
Business development
Entrepreneurialism; Education (professional development)
Philippines: Vocational training for women in Cebu
Philippines
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
<$50k
Skills training
Entrepreneurialism
Myanmar Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT)
Myanmar
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Employment conditions; Access to finance
Financial Literacy training programme
Timor-Leste
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Closed
$1M-$5M
Skills training
Entrepreneurialism; Education (adult)
Timor Leste - Economic Development for Rural Timorese Women
Timor-Leste
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Business development
Entrepreneurialism; Business development
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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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