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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
Female entrepreneurs
Viet Nam
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment
Closed
<$50k
Economic empowerment unspecified
WEE unspecified
UNDP Partnership for Gender Equity, phase III - Partnership for Gender Equity, phase III
Cambodia
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; United Nations Development Programme
Closed
$1M-$5M
Business development
Business development; Violence against women; Gender training/mainstreaming
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Cambodia)
Cambodia
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Myanmar)
Myanmar
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Philippines 1)
Philippines
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Philippines 2)
Philippines
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Philippines 3)
Philippines
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Vietnam 1)
Viet Nam
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$500k-$1M
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
COVID-19 We Effect frame 2018-2022 - We Effect 2018-2022 (Vietnam 2)
Viet Nam
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; We Effect
Implementation
$100k-$500k
Financial services
Land tenure; Access to finance
Son La Women's Economic Collaboration for Development (ECCODE)
Viet Nam
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; International NGO unspecified
Finalisation
$500k-$1M
Economic empowerment unspecified
WEE unspecified
Building social capital to promote social dialogues ability for female migrant workers in highly industrialized areas in Hanoi, Vietnam
Viet Nam
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Public Sector Institution unspecified
Finalisation
$50k-$100k
Unions & fair employment
Civic participation; Access to employment
Fostering a Culture of Human Rights by Preventing and Countering Trafficking and Forced Labor Practices Against Women and Children Domestic Workers in Sending and Receiving Areas in Indonesia
Indonesia
European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society unspecified
Finalisation
$50k-$100k
Unions & fair employment
Trafficking in persons; Employment conditions
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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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