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Country Assistance Plans - Tuvalu : III. Sector Strategies

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D. Gender Dimensions of Asian Development Bank Operations

30. The devolution of more autonomy and financial resources to the outer islands, including under IDP, will benefit women. In fact, due to the emigration, women and other vulnerable groups (poor, very young, and elders) are mainly concentrated on the outer islands. In order to ensure that women play a full part in development and that the gender impact of development processes on the islands is monitored, any training undertaken in participatory development process at the island level will have a minimum quota women participants. And to assess how development will impact differentially across the genders, a series of gender specific Time Use Surveys are being conducted at regular milestones during the implementation of the IDP. The aim is to assess whether the demand on women's labor time is being reduced with the expected increase in cash income and productivity of subsistence activities.

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