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Sri Lanka
- Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Proejct
- Loan 1911, 5 Sep 2002
Gender strategy specifies formation and strengthening of fishers' associations that
will ensure equitable opportunities for membership and representation of women
and also in assuming leadership functions. Project Management Office(PMO) will
give priority to women in training and microcredit programs. Executing
Agency(EA) will ensure that women living in project area fully participate in project
planning and implementing activities. Training programs include leadership,
entrepreneurial skills development, inland fishery and aquaculture production and
management techniques, bookkeeping, credit and debt service management. EA
will provide gender awareness training for all staff and will give preference to
women in hiring. A PMO staff will be a gender focal point to organize and
coordinate gender training activities and ensure that gender concerns are
incorporated in project activities. Gender strategy is included in RRP. Government
has agreed that at least 30% of persons to be trained will be women. Loan
covenant supports implementation of gender strategy.
- Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Proejct
- Loan 1910, 5 Sep 2002
Gender strategy specifies formation and strengthening of fishers' associations that
will ensure equitable opportunities for membership and representation of women
and also in assuming leadership functions. Project Management Office(PMO) will
give priority to women in training and microcredit programs. Executing
Agency(EA) will ensure that women living in project area fully participate in project
planning and implementing activities. Training programs include leadership,
entrepreneurial skills development, inland fishery and aquaculture production and
management techniques, bookkeeping, credit and debt service management. EA
will provide gender awareness training for all staff and will give preference to
women in hiring. A PMO staff will be a gender focal point to organize and
coordinate gender training activities and ensure that gender concerns are
incorporated in project activities. Gender strategy is included in RRP. Government
has agreed that at least 30% of persons to be trained will be women. Loan
covenant supports implementation of gender strategy.
- Forest Resources Management Sector Project - Loan 1744, 2000
During project preparation, socioeconomic surveys of women
in target areas identified household uses of forest resources
and household activities. Social forestry component promotes
interests of female-headed households, including provision for
securing tenure rights in the woman's name and preferential
access to extension services; at least 40% of recipients of
training must be women; project monitoring includes women's
participation; loan
covenant requires that NGOs and CBOs involved in project
promote women's participation in implementation
- Coastal Resource Management - Loan 1716, 1999
Women in fishing communities will be mobilized to participate
in livelihood activities and skills training under project;
women's groups will also be involved in community- organizing
under the resource management component; provisions are supported
by loan covenants.
- Plantation Development Project - Loan 1914, 23 Aug 2003
Social analysis showed that alcoholism leads to domestic violence
and poor health. Social awareness programs will increase gender
awareness and reduce the incidence of alcoholism and work management
conflicts. Improvement of working and living conditions will benefit
women. Strengthening EWHCS (Estate Workers Housing Cooperative
Societies) and other estate-level institutions will empower the
workers especially women. Loan covenant requires measures to ensure
adequate opportunities for women subborrowers of PFIs.
- Plantation Development Project - Loan 1913, 23 Aug 2003
Social analysis showed that alcoholism leads to domestic violence
and poor health. Social awareness programs will increase gender
awareness and reduce the incidence of alcoholism and work management
conflicts. Improvement of working and living conditions will benefit
women. Strengthening EWHCS (Estate Workers Housing Cooperative
Societies) and other estate-level institutions will empower the
workers especially women. Loan covenant requires measures to ensure
adequate opportunities for women subborrowers of PFIs.
- SME Sector Development Program (Lines of Credit) - Loan 1896, 2001
Poverty assessment included gender analysis, focusing on women
entrepreneurs (about 13% of SME owners) and workers (between
1/3 and 2/3 of workers in SMEs). Sector development program
framework includes target of at least 10% loans to women entrepreneurs,
and RRP states that special consideration will be given to women
entrepreneurs under both the Business Services Support Facility
(BSSF) and ADB-financed lines of credit; however, the TOR for
the BSSF and eligibility criteria for participating credit institutions
(PCIs) only require monitoring and reporting on sub-borrowers
based on gender-disaggregated data. Program
loan agreement requires general compliance with ADB's social
protection strategy and domestic labor laws; loan agreement
for BSSF requires PCIs to provide non-discriminatory access
to BSSF services for qualified SMEs and requires monitoring
of a random sample of subloans for their impact on employment
creation, the poor, women and other vulnerable groups; loan
and project agreements for lines of credit require PCIs to monitor
SME subborrowers and their employees based on gender-disaggregated
data, and to select candidates for subloans that comply with
ADB's social protection strategy and domestic labor laws on
working hours, workplace health and safety, and child labor.
- Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement- Loan 1849, 2001
RRP states
that women will be targeted to obtain microcredit and entrepreneurship
training under Part I of project; TOR for lead technical support
provider of entrepreneurship development services includes special
promotional activities for women and youth; however, project
design includes no requirements or targets for women's participation
in Part I activities, no gender-specific eligibility criteria
for participating financial institutions, and no reference to
collection of gender-disaggregated data. Part II of project
(road and market improvements) includes no gender considerations.
Loan covenant requires general adherence to ADB's Guidelines
on Gender and Development.
- Northeast Community Restoration and Development Project - Loan 1846, 2001
Social analysis during project preparation included in-depth
examination of experience of internally displaced people, and
noted increased burdens on women from limited access to water,
disruption of income-generating activities, safety and security
concerns in camps, and reduced access to health services; conflict
has also increased the numbers of female-headed households in
which women become the principal income earners. Subprojects
to restore health facilities and services, water supply and
sanitation, schools, individual and community shelters, and
income-generation activities are likely to benefit women; moreover,
subproject selection criteria include a requirement that the
subproject should promote gender equity in access to basic services
and place particular emphasis on women-headed households (supported
by a loan covenant).
- Skills Development- Loan 1707, 1999
Self-employment promotion initiative (part of the "innovative interventions" component) requires 70% women beneficiaries; management information system for project includes gender-disaggregated database; government will ensure that preference is given to equally qualified women for vacancies and new positions in vocational training institutions. Loan covenants support all of these provisions.
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