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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
SEAF Women's Opportunity Fund (Viet Nam)
Viet Nam
SEAF; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
Gender Lens Investing - Patamar Capital (Indonesia)
Indonesia
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Patamar Capital
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Access to finance; Gender training/mainstreaming; Capacity building
Gender Lens Investing - Patamar Capital (Philippines)
Philippines
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Patamar Capital
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Gender training/mainstreaming; Capacity building
Gender Lens Investing - Patamar Capital (Viet Nam)
Viet Nam
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Patamar Capital
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Gender training/mainstreaming; Capacity building
Gender Lens Investing - Capital 4 Development Partners (Indonesia)
Indonesia
Capital 4 Development Partners; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Access to finance
Gender Lens Investing - Capital 4 Development Partners (Philippines)
Philippines
Capital 4 Development Partners; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance
Gender Lens Investing - Root Capital (Indonesia)
Indonesia
Root Capital; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
$1M-$5M
Financial services
Access to finance
Gender Lens Investing - Root Capital (Philippines)
Philippines
Root Capital; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance
Gender Lens Investing - Root Capital (Viet Nam)
Viet Nam
Root Capital; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance
Workplace Gender Equality (Indonesia)
Indonesia
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Closed
N/A
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Gender training/Mainstreaming; Capacity building
Workplace Gender Equality (Myanmar)
Myanmar
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Closed
N/A
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Gender training/Mainstreaming; Capacity building
Workplace Gender Equality (Philippines)
Philippines
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Closed
N/A
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Gender training/Mainstreaming; 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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