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Bangladesh
- Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement(Sector) Project
- Loan 1947, 2002
In support of the Government's sector investment plan for 22
secondary towns, the project will enhance accountability in municipal
management and strengthen capabilities in the provision of municipal
services. It will likewise promote the active participation of
women in municipal management and services under component 2.
Under component 3, capacity building and implementation assistance
will involve female ward commissioners in project management,
accounting management, community mobilization and training programs
in line with the implementation of the Urban Governance Implementation
Action Plan(UGIAP) and the establishment of Urban Management Support
Units (UMSUs). Wage gaps between men and women will be reduced.
NGOs will be involved in the microcredit component to support
income generating activities for women and youth in low income
areas who will also be provided with leadership training for indigenous
groups will also be conducted to ensure that they benefit from
the project. Loan covenant assures that Gender Action Plan(GAP)
will be fully carried out during project implementation.The GAP
addresses the need for active participation of women in urban
planning and management as both beneficiaries and agents. Loan
covenant specifies that the GAP ensures capacity building of female
ward commissioners, gender mainstreaming within LGED, increase
in recruitment of more female professional and support staff in
municipalities.
- Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project - Loan 1881, 2001
Project's gender strategy, which will be refined during implementation,
includes 50% targets for women's participation as local trainers,
learners, members of local management committees for continuing
education centers, and participatory monitors; requirement that
NGOs engaged to conduct PLCE courses have experience in encouraging
women's participation; awareness-raising in communities, development
of courses, selection of training sites and schedules to encourage
women's participation; collection of gender-disaggregated data
and use of gender-equity indicators to monitor project impacts;
consideration of gender impacts in project reviews; and engagement
of a social development and gender specialist to refine the
gender strategy, provide input to development of a policy framework
and curricula for PLCE, and identify training opportunities
and ways to increase women's participation. Loan
covenants support several aspects of gender strategy.
- Secondary Education Sector Improvement - Loan 1690, 1999
Project supports secondary education of girls in underserved areas, through rehabilitation and building of facilities in rural areas and provision of stipends for girls in 53 disadvantaged thanas. Female student participation (46%) is to be maintained; about 4.5 million girls are expected to be primary beneficiaries (with a target of 465,000 person-years of education). Loan covenants cover details of the stipend program, and require recruitment and training of female staff, and involvement of women from local communities in project implementation.
- Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project - Loan 1952, 2002
The project will address gender concerns by increasing scope of women's participation in municipal management and services as both beneficiaries and agents, i.e., at 30% of total membership in committees that would be involved in participatory planning, implementation and evaluation; generating employment opportunities for women in construction, maintenance and tree planting activities; and facilitating linkages of rural women beneficiaries with different support resources on microfinance to sustain livelihood. Women's participation will also be increased by recruitment and provision of quota in management committees. Market management regulations include committee memberships of female union council members who will be trained on their role as effective public representatives. Government assures LGED to fully carry out the Gender Action Plan(GAP) during project implementation. The component on LGED capacity building will train women in managing rural infrastructure facilities will properly address women's needs. Growth center markets and other infrastructure facilities will be designed to include areas for women. Gender specialist will be hired to support and monitor GAP in mainstreaming gender. Loan covenant assures implementation of the GAP.
- Second Small Scale Water Resources Development Sector-Loan 1831, 2001
The Project will give priority in work opportunities to poor fisherfolk and destitute women, will address gender concerns in all training activities (which should include at least 30% female participants), and will provide special training and support for women to participate in water management associations and other activities; international and national gender specialists will develop and help execute a more detailed gender strategy during project implementation. Loan covenants support incorporation of gender concerns in model bylaws for water management associations; and inclusion of provisions on employment of destitute women, equal wages and a prohibition against child labor in project implementation agreements between the executing agency, local governments and community organizations, to be monitored through NGOs.
- Northwest Crop Diversification Project - Loan 1782, 2000
This loan
is designed with significant gender mainstreaming. Social analysis
undertaken in project preparation confirmed that women play
important roles in agricultural activities, and that 11-15%
of households are headed by women; however, women's access to
skills training and income-generating opportunities is constrained
by cultural factors. NGOs participating in project have strong
bias toward women in their lending and other programs; they
will encourage female heads-of-households and other female farmers
to participate in training, extension and credit activities,
and will ensure that farmers' groups include both men and women,
in mixed or separate groups. Project also provides for gender
specialist to develop gender strategy for formation of farmer
groups, village-based training and extension services appropriate
for women farmers, and monitorable indicators of women's participation
(supported by loan
covenant).
- Chittagong Hills Tract Rural Development - Loan 1771, 2000
Socioeconomic survey and participatory appraisal during project
preparation identified women's needs and preferences, including
microfinance, better water supply and road/trail access to schools,
health centers and markets, and suggested that women would be
willing to participate in project through local organizations
and community groups. Microfinance component of project targets
primarily women (requiring that at least 70% of borrowers must
be women); project also includes improvements in rural roads/trails
and other infrastructure, and provides for women's participation
in project through community organizations; loan
covenant requires women's participation in planning, social
mobilization and training activities.
View Report and Recommendation to the President
- Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project - Loan 1941,
25 Nov 2002
Vulnerable groups will be formed for self-help empowerment with
specific targets to include female-headed and lowest-income households,
who will be engaged in permanent income-generating activtiies
using water management facilities.Efforts to increase participation
of women will be carried out by NGOs and CBOs through a special
network for women WMA (water management associations) members,
fixing targets for enrollment of female WMA members, and providing
special training for women-only groups.Gender specific monitoring
indicators and gender-relevant information will be included in
the project management information system.
- Dhaka Clean Fuel Project - Loan 1943, 5 Nov 2002
Project design takes into consideration participation, equal
wages for men and women, and prevention of child labor. Improved
indoor air quality will be beneficial to women and children. Loan
covenant requires government to set employment targets for women
and ensure bidding documents and contracts would require contractors
to pay equal wages for men and women.
- Dhaka Clean Fuel Project - Loan 1942, 5 Nov 2002
Project design takes into consideration participation, equal
wages for men and women, and prevention of child labor. Improved
indoor air quality will be beneficial to women and children. Loan
covenant requires government to set employment targets for women
and ensure bidding documents and contracts would require contractors
to pay equal wages for men and women.
- Road Network Improvement and Maintenance Project - Loan 1920,
19 Sep 2002
Gender concerns that came out during social assessment will be
addressed by setting employment targets for women in construction
activities, equal wages, and prevention of child labor, and provision
of facilities for children in construction campsites. Women labor
contracting societies will be organized which will help poor and
destitute women to be more socially and economically productive.
- Southwest Flood Damage Rehabilitation - Loan 1825, 2000
Social and poverty assessment undertaken during project preparation identified poor women, especially female heads of households, as disproportionately disadvantaged. Social Rehabilitation Fund is intended to involve women beneficiaries in decision-making; in rehabilitation works, project requires community participation, preference for local labor, and equal opportunities and pay for work that both women and men can perform (supported by loan covenant).
- Roads Maintenance and Improvement Project - Loan 1789/1790, 2000
Follows example of Southwest Road Network Development Project in addressing gender concerns in road construction work: requires setting of gender-based employment targets, nondiscrimination by contractors, equal pay, provision of health and sanitation facilities for workers, and assignment of at least 50% slope protection work to women (monitoring of these provisions is included in TOR of construction supervision consultant). Resettlement plan provides for special assistance to female-headed households. A gender specialist will be engaged to monitor compliance with gender-specific provisions and project impacts on women.
- Southwest Road Network Development Project - Loan 1708, 1999
The Project requires loan targets for women in road construction and afforestation activities (to be set and monitored by the civil works supervision consultants); contractors may not discriminate against women in road construction work; all plantation and afforestation activities will be carried out by women's groups or women contracted through NGOs or community groups; a gender specialist will be engaged to monitor compliance with gender-specific provisions and project impacts on women.
View Report and
Recommendation to the President
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