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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Building Rural Roads to Prosperity in India
Improving roads that connect vulnerable and isolated communities to schools, services, and markets is key to development in India. -
Biogas Brings a Better Life to Pakistan's Rural Women
Thanks to an ADB project, women in rural Pakistan are now using biogas to cook meals for their families, freeing their kitchens from unhealthy fumes and giving them more time for other activities. -
Two Thai Women and a Passion for Organic Food
With ADB support, organic farming in Thailand is helping revive smallholder farming, providing better returns for family businesses, countryside employment, and healthy food to city dwellers, and protecting the environment from pollutants. -
Tomorrow's Women Water Leaders in Lao PDR
Scholarships for young women in Lao People's Democratic Republic are helping today's students become tomorrow's water leaders. -
Cambodia Gender: Vocational Skills Training Uplifts Women
Vocational skills and social training open new windows of opportunity for women in Siem Reap. -
Viet Nam: Increasing Girls' Access to Lower Secondary Education in the Most Disadvantaged Regions - 2013
The Lower Secondary Education for the Most Disadvantaged Regions Project, approved in 2007, aimed at improving the net enrollment rate in lower secondary education, particularly for ethnic minorities and girls, in 103 of the most disadvantaged districts in 17 target provinces in Viet Nam. -
Nepal Farming and Agriculture
Rural farm workers who might otherwise have joined Nepal’s wave of urbanization band together to raise incomes, by double cropping and branding their produce. -
Viet Nam's Song Bung 4 Hydropower: Impact on Women
Though the Song Bung 4 hydropower dam and energy project relocated Co Tu minority in Viet Nam’s central region, it also offered new income opportunities and empowered local women. -
India Sanitation: Investments Make Coastal Cities More Livable
An urban water and sewerage system project in the Indian state of Karnataka is improving people’s health and making cities like Mangalore more livable. -
Empowering Women in Bangladesh, Nepal, and the Philippines
Three women share how their lives have been changed as beneficiaries of and contributors to the success of development projects aimed at the most vulnerable in society.