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Connecting Economies, Empowering Women (2024)
This report details findings from a multi-year program aimed at promoting regional growth and women’s economic empowerment through trade facilitation and connectivity in the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,...
Understanding the Gap Between Gender Equality and Social Inc...
Progress toward integrating gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) objectives in Nepal’s energy sector has been slow, despite constitutional commitments to gender equality and non-discrimination....
Understanding the Gap Between Gender Equality and Social Inc...
Progress toward integrating gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) objectives in Nepal’s energy sector has been slow, despite constitutional commitments to gender equality and non-discrimination....
Investments in Childcare for Gender Equality in Asia and the...
Focusing on public childcare provision across 48 economies in Asia and the Pacific, this report provides an analysis of policy and institutional frameworks for childcare (ages 0-6 years old) and offer...
Women's Empowerment, Extended Families and Male Migration in...
This paper analyzes variations in women’s empowerment based on their husband’s migration status and factors such as caste, ethnicity, and household composition. It finds that wives in nuclear househol...
Gendered Experience of Disaster: Women's Account of Evacuati...
Presenting a qualitative analysis of the experiences of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, this paper focuses on how socioeconomic factors, such as citizenship, ...
Promoting Women’s Leadership Under Environmental Decentraliz...
While decentralization is meant to empower rural people, gender inequalities in leadership persist. In Nepal, the more than 18,000 local Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) present a test case with a...
Women’s Advancement in Banking in Emerging South Asian Count...
This IFC study, one of the first in the region, covers 20 private commercial banks across Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and spotlights opportunities for achieving more equitable work outcomes for w...
Impact of Climate Change on Urban Home-based Workers in Sout...
The research on how climate change impacts the productivity of home-based workers (most of whom are women) is limited. This study focuses on female home-based workers in slums and informal settlements...
Engendering Climate Change Learnings from South Asia
Providing perspectives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, this book focuses on gendered experiences of environmental change. It offers an overview of socio-economic pressures faced by women ...
Exploring the Linkages Between Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work ...
Two key channels through which women’s economic empowerment affects gender-based violence include the economic bargaining model (which suggests that women’s paid work reduces violence by increasing th...
Empowering Women through a #DigitALL Nepal (2023)
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital payments in Nepal – benefitting countless small vendors, including Nabina Yadav, a vegetable seller in Kathmandu who was quick to switch to a messa...