Gender and Development

Policy on Gender and Development

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67 pages. Office of Environment and Social Development.

ADB's Policy on Gender and Development adopts mainstreaming as a key strategy in promoting gender equity. This policy

• provides a review of ADB's policy on the role of women in development (WID)
• summarizes the evolution of ADB's WID approach and that of other agencies over the past decade
• traces the transition from WID to gender and development discusses some of the new and emerging areas of concern for women in the Asian and Pacific region
• highlights the recommendations to development finance institutions contained in the Platform for Action endorsed by the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995

Against this background, potential areas for policy revisions are discussed, the form that such revisions might take are suggested, and institutional mechanisms to more systematically operationalize ADB's strategic objective of improving the status of women are proposed.

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2008 Annual Implementation Progress Report [ PDF: 351Kb | 42 pages] Biennial Thematic Report on Gender and Development 2006-2007 [ PDF: 426kb | 75 pages ] Implementation Review of the Policy on Gender and Development (2006) Interim Progress Report on the Policy on Gender and Development (2002) [PDF: 1,792kb | 62 pages] Gender Action Plan 2000-2003 Gender and Development Action Plan for Bank Operations in Pacific Developing Member Countries 1999-2002

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Contents

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Abbreviations

Tables, figures, and boxes

Executive summary

1. Introduction

2. Gender and development issues in the Asia and Pacific region

3. Overview of ADB policy and operations on WID (1985–1996)

   1. Gender considerations in ADB’s macroeconomic work
   2. Gender considerations in project work
   3. Gender considerations in recruitment and staffing

4. The need for a revised policy on gender and development

   1. From WID to GAD
   2. Experience of the World Bank and other agencies
   3. Experience of DMC governments
   4. International agenda for women

5. ADB’s revised policy on gender and development

   1. Rationale
   2. ADB policy
   3. Operational approaches
   4. Institutional mechanisms
   5. Policy review and evaluation
   6. Responsibility for GAD
   7. ADB-wide resource implications of the policy on GAD

Appendix [ PDF: 122kb | 7 pages ]