Gender and Development

Gender CoP seminar: Impact of global recession on women in the informal economy

Zoe Horn, policy analyst and project coordinator for the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing network* will present the findings of the ADB/WIEGO study, The Impact of the Global Recession on the Informal Economy in Four Asian Countries*.

High-Level Regional Conference on the Impact of the Global Economic Slowdown on Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific: Plenum 3: Gender Implications of the Global Recession on Asia

ADB will facilitate the organization of a gender panel as part of the High-Level Regional Conference on the Impact of the Global Economic Slowdown on Poverty and Sustainable Development (28-30 September, Hanoi, Viet Nam). H.E. Ing Khantha Phavi, Minister of Women Affairs for Cambodia will chair the session. Four presentations will be made by ADB, ILO Bangkok* and WIEGO*.

View the Conference program, papers and presentations

Gender and Social Development Community of Practice Seminar: Gender, migration, and remittances

Ms. Sandra Panopio of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women made a presentation on the institute's research methodology and project on Gender and Remittances: Creating Gender Responsive Local Development [ PDF: 177kb | 21 pages ].

Gender and Social Development Community of Practice Seminar: Gender mainstreaming in the Tonle Sap Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project in Cambodia

The Ministry of Rural Development shared their experiences and lessons [ PDF: 3,387kb | 34 pages ] from the first project.

Gender Mainstreaming Awareness held in Kabul, Afghanistan

A two-day workshop was held for ADB staff in the Afghanistan Resident Mission. The workshop focused on gender integration, ways to mainstream gender into development interventions, and how to use gender analysis checklist in ADB projects.

Pacific Knowledge Seminar Series: Gender Mainstreaming

Eugenia McGill, lecturer and workshop director at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs joined RSGS' Sonomi Tanaka and PARD's Sakiko Tanaka in discussing gender mainstreaming in Pacific operations [ PDF: 86kb | 16 pages ].

Technical Working Session on Gender Mainstreaming in Infrastructure Projects

Govind Kelkar [ PDF: 54kb | 15 pages ], ENERGIA and International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, and Kyoko Kusakabe [ PDF: 977kb | 12 pages ], Asian Institute of Technology, analyzed ways to better mainstream gender concerns in ADB's operations in the energy and transport sectors.

See other references:
Gender Analysis of Renewable Energy in India: Present Status, Issues, Approaches and New Initiatives [ PDF: 5.82mb | 93 pages ]

Gender Mainstreaming in Transport Sector in ADB [ PDF: 75kb | 15 pages ]

Gender Community of Practice Seminar: Briefing on Second Rapid Gender Assessments of Selected Loan and Grant Projects

Consultant Juliet Hunt [ PDF: 124kb | 40 pages ] presented the findings of the rapid gender assessments on selected projects in Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam.

EFG Lunch Seminar: Highlights of on-going Gender Work in Mongolia and Sri Lanka

ADB's resident mission-based gender specialists Oyunbileg Baasanjav [ PDF: 48kb | 11 pages ] (Mongolia) and Nelun Gunasekera [ PDF: 44kb | 6 pages ] (Sri Lanka) presented key highlights of their current work in their respective countries.

EFG Lunch Seminar: Gender Dimensions of the Economic/Financial Crisis

External Forum on Gender members Caren Grown [ PDF: 235kb | 18 pages ] from the American University, Yasuko Muramatsu [ PDF: 98kb | 14 pages ] from the Japan Research Center for Gender and Development, and Marina Durano [ PDF: 45kb | 4 pages ] of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, and Eugenia McGill of Columbia Univesity's School of International and Public Affairs discussed gender issues in the context of the current economic crisis.

External Forum on Gender (EFG) Meeting

The EFG will hold its 10th session at ADB Headquarters on 14-18 July 2009. Three seminars will be jointly conducted with this event: (i) Engendering ADB's Infrastructure Portfolio, (ii) Gender Dimensions of the Global Economic Crisis, and (iii) Rapid Gender Assessments of 12 ADB-Financed Projects in Four Countries (Indonesia, Viet Nam, Sri Lanka and Mongolia). See agenda.

Gender and Social Development Community of Practice Seminar TA 4690-VIE: Strengthening Institutional Capacity of Local Stakeholders for Implementation of Son La Livelihood & Resettlement Plan

Ms. Monawar Sultana, Senior Social Development Specialist of Energy and Water Division / Southeast Asia Department, discussed key success factors and gender dimensions [ PDF: 1,205kb | 19 pages ] of the project.

Gender and Social Development CoP Seminar: Informal Sector Employment and Gender Dimensions – Bangladesh and Indonesia

Ms. Dax Maligalig of the Development Indicators and Policy Research Division, Economics Research Department presented a methodology [ PDF: 655kb | 48 pages ] for analyzing informal sector employment from labor force surveys of Bangladesh and Indonesia and findings on gender dimensions.

ADB Celebrates International Women's Day
Three prominent women panelists shared their views of women and the economic crisis:

• Nancy Spence [ PDF: 41kb | 1 page ] director, Economic and Social Development Affiliates | Presentation [ PDF: 135kb | 6 pages ]
• Winnie Monsod [ PDF: 13kb | 1 page ], professor, University of the Philippines School of Economics; and
• Shamshad Akhtar [ PDF: 38kb | 1 page ], ADB President's Special Senior Advisor | Remarks [ PDF: 109kb | 6 pages ]

• program [ PDF: 12kb | 1 page ],
• presentations [ PDF: 135kb | 6 pages ],
• event photos [ PDF: 572kb | 8 pages ], and
• winning entries in the photo competition [ PDF: 1,358kb | 4 pages ]

ADB Celebrates International Women's Day
ADB's BRM and the Local Consultative Group (LCG) sub-group on Women Advancement and Gender Equality (LCG WAGE), Bangladesh organized a special event to celebrate the occasion of the International Women's Day 2009, held at the Shilpakala Academy Plaza, Segunbagicha, Dhaka on 9 March. Two prominent women leaders, Ms. Gitiara Shafiya Chowdhury and Ms. Rasheda K. Chowdhury, both Advisors of Caretaker Governments were present as guests. Read more on this event [ PDF: 65kb | 1 page ].