Gender Case Studies
The gender results provide an overview of gender issues, design features, and implementation arrangements that contribute to achieving gender-related targets in ADB projects.
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Police and Community Partnership in Nepal Tackling Violence Against Women
In Nepal, the police established the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) network in 20 districts across the country in coordination with civil society organizations and with support from ADB. The network helps women feel more comfortable reporting gender-based crime and domestic violence. -
Uzbekistan: Helping Women One Small Loan at a Time
In Uzbekistan, a project that lends money to small businesses, with a focus on helping women entrepreneurs, is having a broad societal impact. -
Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Improving Lives and Saving Forests
In the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a community is creating new products without damaging the environment, empowering women in the process. -
Bangladesh: Throwing a Lifeline to Small Businesses
A partnership between Bangladesh and ADB provided loans to rural and women-owned businesses that struggled to access the credit needed to expand their operations. -
How Lao PDR is Using TVET to Break Gender Barriers at Work
Affirmative action, vouchers, social marketing, and homestay visits are helping break through gender barriers to “blue collar” work in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. -
Healthy Babies and Happy Mothers in Uzbekistan
Better training for health professionals, modern equipment and new facilities are helping to save the lives of new mothers and their babies. -
Making Health Care Affordable for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh
Maternity clinics run under a public–private partnership are making quality health care a reality in Dhaka’s slum communities. -
Villages in Samoa Improve Sanitation to Stay Healthy
Families in Samoa are cleaning up their neighborhoods, adopting better sanitation practices, and living healthier lives. -
In Kyrgyz Republic, Access to Finance Boosts Small Business
As small and medium-sized businesses in the Kyrgyz Republic face an economic downturn, mobile phone technology and local banks are making access to finance easier. -
Unlocking the Economic Potential of Women in the Pacific
Doing business in the Pacific is hard, but it’s a lot harder for women. Fortunately, sweeping reforms across the Pacific are creating an enabling environment for business and opening up opportunities for women.