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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 Agent Banking in Indonesia
Indonesia
World Bank
Closed
$500k-$1M
Financial services
Access to finance; Research
Board Gender Diversity
Myanmar
World Bank
Closed
$100k-$500k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program IE
Philippines
World Bank
Closed
$500k-$1M
Social reproductive labour
Familial structure; Land tenure; Research
Expanding Knowledge on Gender Gaps in Timor Leste Using Gender-Disaggregated Data
Timor-Leste
World Bank
Closed
$50k-$100k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research
ActionAid's livelihoods project
Cambodia
ActionAid
#N/A
N/A
Business development
Rural development; Business development
Economic Empowerment of the Poor and Women in the East-West Economic Corridor
Myanmar
Asian Development Bank
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Business Development; Entrepreneurialism; Access to finance; Education (vocational)
Women's Development Centers
Cambodia
Asian Development Bank
Closed
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Entrepreneurialism; Access to finance; Education (adult)
Promoting Women's Access to Jobs in Rural Road Construction and Maintenance
Cambodia
CARE International
#N/A
N/A
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Access to employment
Cambodia Sustainable Business Development Project
Cambodia
World Vision Australia
Closed
$1M-$5M
Trade & access to markets
Market access; Rural development
Building Better Budgets for Women and the Poor
Indonesia
Global Affairs Canada; The Asia Foundation
Closed
$5M-$10M
Social protection
Civic participation; Social protection; Gender training/mainstreaming; Capacity building
Gender Capacity Building
Indonesia
The Asia Foundation
#N/A
<$50k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Gender training/mainstreaming
Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Asia
All SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
>$10M
Business development
Entrepreneurialism; Capacity building
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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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