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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
10,000 Women (Phase 1)
Philippines
Goldman Sachs
Closed
>$10M
Skills training
Education (career development); Education (adult); Business development; Entrepreneurialism; Access to finance
Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (Cambodia)
Cambodia
International Finance Corporation; Goldman Sachs
Implementation
>$10M
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (Indonesia)
Indonesia
International Finance Corporation; Goldman Sachs
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (Lao PDR)
Lao PDR
International Finance Corporation; Goldman Sachs
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (Philippines)
Philippines
International Finance Corporation; Goldman Sachs
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (Viet Nam)
Viet Nam
International Finance Corporation; Goldman Sachs
Implementation
N/A
Financial services
Access to finance; Capacity building
Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (Cambodia)
Cambodia
World Bank
Implementation
>$10M
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Capacity building; Programme development; Research
Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (Indonesia)
Indonesia
World Bank
Implementation
N/A
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Capacity building; Programme development; Research
Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (Lao PDR)
Lao PDR
World Bank
Implementation
N/A
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Capacity building; Programme development; Research
Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (Viet Nam)
Viet Nam
World Bank
Implementation
N/A
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Capacity building; Programme development; Research
Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (Tmor-Leste)
Timor-Leste
World Bank
Implementation
N/A
Regulatory & legal frameworks
Capacity building; Programme development; Research
Research on Female Entrepreneurs Operating in Male-Dominated Sectors (Cambodia)
Cambodia
World Bank
Finalisation
$100k-$500k
Gender training, research & mainstreaming
Entrepreneurialism; Research
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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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