Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4339: The Extent and Impacts of Gender Inequality in Women's Access to Land, Forests and Water Resources on Poverty Reduction - Lao PDR
Financed by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

This technical assistance shall identify ways to reduce poverty and improve gender equity among ethnic minorities in the Nam Ngum Basin, through the following:

• Phase 1: Ethnographic study of gender issues, primarily in terms of ethnic minorities' rights and access to land and related issues of access to forest and water resources
• Phase 2: Preparation and implementation of a detailed strategy to improve gender outcomes in the counterpart project.

The ethnographic study to be done is the first phase will address the following:

• Gender patterns of resource allocation, management and rights under customary laws of ethnic minority communities living in the Nam Ngum Basin
• The impacts on women's rights, of state laws and policies of relocation, stabilization of shifting cultivation, land-use planning and land allocation, forest demarcation, water resource allocation and management
• Analysis of the factors responsible for gender raps in delivery of government services and programs, particularly to ethnic minority women
• Recommendations to close these gaps.

• Press Releases
• ADB to Study Gender Equality Among Ethnic Minorities in Lao PDR

• Case Study [ PDF: 87kb | 3 pages ]
• TACR [ PDF: 35kb | 2 pages ]

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