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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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. -
In India, Communities Manage Water Resources, Empower Women
Community-based associations that put Indian farmers in control of water for irrigation—the heart of their livelihoods—nearly foundered until an ADB-supported project stepped in, engaging farming families. -
Improving Maternal and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic
A community-based early childhood development project has helped improve women's and children's health in rural communities of the Kyrgyz Republic. -
Nepal Education: Providing a Brighter Future for Poor Girls
For many poor girls and their families in rural and remote areas of Nepal, a secondary education support project has put them on the right path to realizing their "dreams of a better future". -
Uzbekistan Water: Bringing New Opportunities to Rural Women
Bringing potable water and better sanitation to rural communities in Uzbekistan improves people's lives and empowers women to take charge of their lives.