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Gender and Institutional Support RETAs

Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, RETA 6143, 2003

The TA will assist key government agencies in DMCs to systematically address gender concerns in planning, development, and implementation of programs and projects to reduce gender disparities and meet the MDGs. The TA project is an umbrella fund that finance GAD initiatives linked to other ADB financed activities.

The TA includes the following categories of activities under the program:

1. Country Strategy and Program (CSP) Activities. This component will selectively finance preparation of gender strategies and other selective upstream work to integrate gender in national poverty reduction strategies and CSPs.
2. Gender Plans for ADB Loans. This component will finance:
   1. the development of gender plans for loan projects in a range of sectors; and
   2. other strategic GAD support for loan projects.
3. GAD Capacity Building. This subcomponent will support capacity building of:
   1. national women's ministries and other focal agencies in DMCs, and
   2. executing agencies in ADB-supported sectors of DMCs.
4. Gender Impact Assessment. This component may finance selective gender impact assessments of individual loans or loan clusters within a particular sector or DMC. These gender impact assessments will be used to identify midcourse corrections and to prepare materials on good practices and lessons learned.
5. DMC Partnerships. This component will support activities related to new and emerging gender issues in the Asia and Pacific region, as well as ADB's partnerships with women's organizations, other development partners, and regional networks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Todate, the following projects supported under the RETA are in implementation:

Part A: GAD Support for CSP Activities

1. Lao PDR - National Gender and Tourism Strategy
2. Peoples' Republic of China - Understanding of Gender Dimension
3. Regional Technical Assistance - Gender Mainstreaming in the GMS Regional CDC
4. Regional Technical Assistance - Enhancing Stakeholder Participation on CARs

Part B: GAD Support for ADB Loans

5. Lao PDR - Nam Theum 2 Gender Action Plan
6. Sri Lanka - Support Activities for Women Initiatives
7. KYG - Participation of Women in Agriculture Project
8. Kyrgyz Republic - Gender Responsive Microfinance
9. Indonesia - Support Activities for Strengthening Women's Involvement in Housing Rehabilitation Reconstruction in Aceh

Part C: GAD Capacity Building

10. Regional Technical Assistance - Gender and Law Toolkit
11. Cambodia - Strengthening and Capacity Building of Female Commune Councils
12. Bangladesh - Gender Capacity Building in Water Sector
13. Uzbekistan - Improving National GAD Machinery
14. Indonesia - Gender Specific Approaches on Urban Nutrition

Part D: Gender Impact Assessment

15. Nepal - Gender Impacts in the Third Livestock Development Project
16. Peoples' Republic of China - Strengthening Gender Impacts of Road Project in Sichuan Province

Part E: Partnership Activities

17. Indonesia - Study on Gender Disparities
18. Regional Technical Assistance - Association for Women's Rights and Development - 10th International Forum
19. Indonesia - Country Strategy Assessment Workshop
20. Uzbekistan - Roundtable on CEDAW and MDGs Strategy
21. Uzbekistan - Financial Services for Rural Women in Bukhara

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