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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
SNKI Capacity Support and Driving Indonesia WEE
Indonesia
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Access to finance
Reinvestment: Women and Girls SDG Accountability: Annual Report/Tracker
Indonesia
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Research; Regulatory action
Strengthening of Women's Civil Rights in Indonesia
Indonesia
Deutsche Gesellschaft f�r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Closed
$1M-$5M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Women's rights
Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in Quang Ninh Province
Viet Nam
Marie-Schlei-Verein e.V.
Closed
$50k-$100k
Economic empowerment unspecified
WEE unspecified
Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship Program with Gender Mainstreaming Aproach for the Rural Youth of Mati/ mindanao, Phlippines
Philippines
Don Bosco Mondo e.V.
Finalisation
$500k-$1M
Skills training
Entrepreneurialism; Education (vocational)
Vocational training and micro credit programme for woman with and without disabilities, formation of production groups and training for WU facilitators
Viet Nam
Solidarit�tsdienst International e.V.
Closed
$100k-$500k
Financial services
Education (vocational); Micro credit; Disability
Improving income and social conditions for women through Credit and Saving activities
Viet Nam
Gesellschaft f�r Entwicklung International Sachsen e.V.
Finalisation
<$50k
Financial services
Access to finance
FUNDACION WORDFORGE. Observatorio de Genero en Camboya
Cambodia
Spainish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research; Programme 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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