Catalog

Uzbekistan
Country Gender Assessment

This report is one of a series of Country Gender Assessments (CGAs) undertaken by the ADB to provide background information and analysis on gender and development issues in ADB's developing member countries. The primary purpose of the series is to provide input to the formulation of country strategies and programs and project design and implementation. This CGA for Uzbekistan updates information contained in an earlier publication, the Country Briefing Paper on the Women of the Republic of Uzbekistan, published by ADB in February 2001.

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Executive Summary

1. Background and Development Context
1. Gender and Development
2. Demographic Background
3. Uzbekistan’s Human Development Indicators
4. Gender and Uzbekistan
5. Sources of Information
6. Structure of the CGA
2. Gender and Poverty in Uzbekistan
1. Economic Growth and Living Standards
2. Income Poverty
3. Nonincome Poverty
3. Government Response and International Commitments
1. Gender Issues and Country-Specific Millennium Development Goals for Uzbekistan
2. Data Problems and the Challenges of Setting and Achieving National MDGs
3. Uzbekistan’s National Millennium Development Goals
4. Gender issues and Uzbekistan’s Living Standard Strategy and Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
5. Treatment of Gender Issues in the Living Standards Strategy and the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy and Program
6. The Living Standards Strategy and the Millennium Development Goals: Toward Gender-Sensitive Poverty Reduction Strategies
4. Gender and Employment
1. Male and Female Employment
2. The Competition for Jobs
3. Employment in Rural Areas
4. Summary and Recommendations
5. Gender, Productive Assets, and Access to Social Protection
1. Access to Land
2. Access to Water and other Utilities; Women’s Time Poverty
3. Access to Credit and Markets
4. Access to Social Protection
6. Gender Dimensions of Human Development
1. Health Sector Reform in Uzbekistan
2. Gender and Health Care Indicators
3. Maternal Mortality
4. Gender Issues and the Incidence of Diseases
5. Gender Issues in Education
6. Gender Issues in Preschool Education
7. Gender Issues in Basic and Secondary Education
8. Gender Issues in Tertiary Education
9. Women and Information and Communication Technology
7. Further Gender Equality Concerns
1. Domestic Violence
2. The Growing Importance of Mardikhors
3. Migration
4. Trafficking of Persons
5. Gender and HIV/AIDS
8. National Legal, Policy, and Institutional Framework for Promoting Gender Equality
1. Legal framework
2. Policy and Institutional Framework
3. Women’s Voice in Politics and Decision Making
4. Nongovernment Organizations
5. Development Partners
9. Summary of Emerging Gender Issues
1. Changes since 2001
2. The Emerging Gender Issues
10. Addressing Key Gender Issues in Ongoing and Planned ADB Projects
1. The Current Country Strategy and Program Priorities
2. Gender Mainstreaming in Strategic Program Areas
3. Gender Mainstreaming in Projects with a Focus on Increasing Employment and Income-Generation Opportunities in the Private Sector
4. Gender Mainstreaming in Projects with a Focus on Agriculture/Rural Development (Including Water Infrastructure)
5. Gender Mainstreaming in Projects with a Focus on Education
6. General Recommendations for Strengthening Gender Mainstreaming in ADB Activities and Projects
7. Other General Recommendations
8. Recommendations for Interventions Concerning the Different Sectors

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