Gender and Development

Gender Checklists and Toolkit

We have designed these sectoral gender checklists to help ADB staff and consultants address gender issues in the preparation of projects in different sectors. They:

• provide a step-by-step guide to promote and ensure gender inclusiveness of ADB financed projects
• guide users through the various stages of the project cycle in identifying the main gender issues and designing appropriate strategies and components to respond to gender concerns
• include sample terms of reference for the conduct of social and gender analysis
• include case studies of ADB projects to demonstrate good practice.

Sectoral Gender Checklists

• Agriculture
• Education
• Health
• Resettlement
• Urban Development and Housing
• Water Supply and Sanitation

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Gender, Law, and Policy Toolkit

The Gender, Law, and Policy Toolkit helps analyze GLP issues in proposed ADB projects. It is particularly useful in designing program and sector development loans, where law and policy reforms play an especially prominent role.

See also Translated Gender Documents.

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Project Gender Action Plans: Lessons for Achieving Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction Results (A Briefing Note)

This briefing note summarizes evidence on effective approaches used by the Asian Development Bank for achieving benefits for women and progress towards gender equality. It features the effectiveness of gender action plans in achieving practical benefits and strategic changes in gender relations; reducing vulnerability to poverty; and enhancing sustainability of benefits. It also provides guidelines for incorporating gender in reports and recommendations of the President (RRPs).

The findings are based on gender assessments of 12 loans in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, and Pakistan and including five rural development loans (agriculture, rural infrastructure, and livestock), four human developmpent and/or social sector loans (two health and two education), and three governance loans.