Publications

Results 1-10 of 13 for Bangladesh
January 2013

Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia: Proceedings Report of the 2012 Subregional Workshop

This report presents the synthesis of knowledge, experiences, good practices, and recommendations shared at the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia with the aim of assisting ADB and its partner agencies in the planning of urban development projects to facilitate gender and socially inclusive outcomes and reduce poverty in South Asia.
April 2012

Asian Development Outlook 2012: Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia

The annual Asian Development Outlook (ADO) provides a comprehensive analysis of economic performance for the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.
October 2010

Country Gender Assessment: Bangladesh

This publication aims to contribute to the new country partnership strategy for 2011
November 2010

Gender Equality Results Case Studies: Bangladesh

This publication provides an overview of gender issues, design features, and implementation arrangements that contributed to achieving gender-related targets in six ADB projects.
November 2010

A Portrait of Development: Impact Stories from Bangladesh

This publication includes several impact stories which describe people and places benefiting from the partnership between ADB and Bangladesh.
April 2009

Project Gender Action Plans: Lessons for Achieving Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction Results

This briefing note summarizes evidence on effective approaches used by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for achieving benefits for women and progress towards gender equality.
March 2009

Institutionalizing Gender Equality at ADB: The Experience of the Bangladesh Resident Mission

Between 1998-2007, Bangladesh had the highest proportion of projects with significant gender mainstreaming at ADB. The social changes in the country and the increasing commitment of line agencies provided momentum to mainstream gender concerns.
January 2009

Legal Empowerment for Women and Disadvantaged Groups

The report presents the findings of a project that aimed to identify and test legal empowerment strategies that increase access to basic social services, productive resources, and opportunities by women and other disadvantaged groups and to incorporate legal empowerment initiatives into mainstream development projects.
September 2007

Gender Action Plans and Gender Equality Results: Rapid Gender Assessments of ADB Projects (Synthesis Report)

As part of the implementation review of its Policy on Gender and Development, ADB conducted rapid gender assessments of 12 projects under implementation in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Pakistan to determine whether the inclusion of gender action plans (GAPs) in project design improve results for women.
December 2004

Bangladesh: Gender, Poverty and the MDGs

This report a country gender assessment prepared in conjunction with country strategies and programs for Bangladesh.