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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War, Conflict and Water in Eastern Sri Lanka
A regular supply of clean, potable water is making all the difference to a town in eastern Sri Lanka still recovering from the recently ended civil war. -
Sri Lanka Natural Resources: Freshwater Fishing in Rural Areas Boosts Development
A community-based program to revive fresh-water fishing in rural Sri Lanka has helped the poor achieve self-sufficiency, while providing them with useful skills and knowledge-based training. -
赋权之路
在中华人民共和国（中国）偏远的少数民族地区，妇女养路队员们不仅把道路维护的井然有序，她们还团结在一起，在自己的地区发挥着更大的作用。 -
Empowering Women in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China
In a remote minority region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), all-female maintenance crews are doing more than keeping the roads in order—they are banding together and taking on bigger roles in their communities. -
Indonesian Environment Protection: Rallying for the Reefs
The Indonesia archipelago is home to the world’s most spectacular and biologically diverse coral reefs. ADB is working to preserve the reefs, and the fish (and people) that depend on them for survival. -
Maldives: Regional Development Project (Phase II) – 2010
The project aims to promote regional development through improved environmental and land management, and infrastructure, through the active involvement of women. -
Maldives: Private Sector Development Project – 2010
To amend domestic regional inequalities in the Maldives, the government identified regional economic growth and diversification as key objectives of economic development in both the 6th and 7th National Development Plans. -
Sri Lanka: Power Sector Development Program Loan 1929/1930 - 2010
The Power Sector Development Program aims to provide 80% of the Sri Lanka’s population with electricity by 2010. -
Nepal: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program - 2010
The Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program (RRRSDP) in Nepal was designed to accelerate poverty reduction and socially inclusive development in the hill, mountain, and Terai districts to support the government's post-conflict development priorities. -
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP): Loan 2092 - 2010
The Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) was designed to reduce rural poverty in 18 conflict-affected, remote hill and mountain districts to increase access to economic opportunities and social services.