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Policy on Gender and Development

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Introduction

1. This booklet provides a review of ADB’s policy on the role of women in development (WID). The evolution of ADB’s WID approach and that of other agencies over the past decade are summarized. The transition from WID to gender and development (GAD) is traced; some of the new and emerging areas of concern for women in the Asia and Pacific region are discussed; and the recommendations to development finance institutions contained in the Platform for Action endorsed by the United Nations (UN) Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 are highlighted. 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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