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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 Lens Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development in Southeast Asia
All SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Implementation
>$10M
Financial services
Entrepreneurialism
Promoting Innovative Finance for Development
Unspecified SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
>$10M
Financial services
Access to finance
Promoting investment for women entrepreneurs in Asia (Indonesia)
Indonesia
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
>$10M
Financial services
Entrepreneurialism; Access to finance; Education (adult)
Promoting investment for women entrepreneurs in Asia (Myanmar)
Myanmar
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
N/A
Financial services
Entrepreneurialism; Access to finance; Education (adult)
Promoting investment for women entrepreneurs in Asia (Thailand)
Thailand
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
N/A
Financial services
Entrepreneurialism; Access to finance; Education (adult)
Ecosystem building for SDGs financing
Unspecified SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
>$10M
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research
Women leadership and empowerment
All SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Closed
>$10M
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Research
Addressing Gender Issues in Asia Through Entrepreneurship
Myanmar
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Implementation
>$10M
Business development
Entrepreneurialism
Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration Toolkit (1.0 and 2.0)
All SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Implementation
N/A
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Programme development; Gender training/mainstreaming
Angel Masterclass
All SEA
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
SEAF Women's Opportunity Fund (Indonesia)
Indonesia
SEAF; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
$5M-$10M
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
SEAF Women's Opportunity Fund (Philippines)
Philippines
SEAF; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; 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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