Evaluation of whether project-specific gender action plans (GAPs) and strategies improved project implementation, outreach, and results for women in Nepal. This report assesses results in the following areas: participation in project activities: access to resources: practical benefits delivered to women: and changes in gender relations at individual, household, or community levels.
This working paper provided an overview of women’s movements engagement in FfD (Financing for Development) process in order to serve as an analytical resource to gender inputs to FfD. By doing so, it may be used as an advocacy tool for women’s movements and networks to build a perspective to FfD agenda as well as feed into FfD gender-sensitive policy proposals. Section II provides an overview of the environment that led to FfD agenda, while section III discusses the changes in this environment. Regarding this agenda, section IV debates specific gender contributions to FfD from feminist networks, while section V analyses Monterrey Consensus from a critical feminist perspective. Finally, section VI provides inputs for feminist mobilization towards Doha. (The review conference took place in Doha, Qatar from 29 November to 2 December 2008.)
This paper offers an overview of the social and economic status of women in Tonga. It documents some of their main roles and responsibilities within the development process and analyses their principal needs, problems and concerns against the backdrop of social and economic trends in the country.
Evaluation of whether project-specific gender action plans (GAPs) and strategies improved project implementation, outreach, and results for women in Pakistan. Two loan projects and one policy loan were assessed: Malakand Rural Development Project (MRDP), Women’s Health Project (WHP) and Decentralization Support Program (DSP).
This paper deals with the socioeconomic status of Malaysian women. It describes the recent trends of the female labor force participation, the areas where the female labor force is concentrated at present, and gender differentials in wages, and it contains recommendations to improve women’s status through their participation in economic development. It focuses on the need to enhance the educational and health opportunities for Malaysian women. It analyzes national Women in Development (WID) policies and the national machinery related to WID, and the Bank’s WID strategy in terms of its pipeline of technical assistance (TA) and loan projects.