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Liquefied Petroleum Gas: Increasing the Energy Options Benefitting Women Worldwide

1 September 2015
This material showcases various ways in which women are benefitting from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and, by doing so, illustrates what can be done—at various points in the value chain—for LPG to support women’s needs and goals, and contribute to wider gender equity.

Self Employed Women's Association: A Collective Voice of Women

22 May 2015
Women in the informal sector are vulnerable, posing threat on their income security, food security, and social security. The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) was established to help women become individually and collectively self-reliant, economically independent, and capable of making…

Gender-Responsive Laws, Policies, and Activism for Women's Empowerment

22 May 2015
Pakistan ended on the second to the last spot in the World Economic Forum's 2014 Global Gender Gap Index. But victories have been observed in the recent years when it comes to women empowerment. This presentation gives an overview of the Pakistani experience in lobbying for gender equity,…

Overview: Constraints to Women's Entrepreneurship

21 May 2015
Starting up a business is particularly challenging for women around the globe. This presentation gives a snapshot of entrepreneural activities of men and women in different regions, and enumerates the main obstacles that women need to hurdle in setting up their own. It also enumerates factors that…

Using ICTs to Leverage Women's Entrepreneurship in Central Asia -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan

21 May 2015
This presentation tackles the current environment for Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) for womens' entrepreneurship development. It also identifies women entrepreneurs' ICT access and provides recommendations in leveraging appropriate ICT tools for womens' entrepreneurship…

High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement

21 May 2015
This presentation shares details of the Asian Development Bank project, High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement in Nepal. The project helped improve access of women and the disadvantaged to information and technical skills. The gains also included increased household income and…

Pathways: Moving Women Forward

20 May 2015
This presentation discusses different pathways for women to successfully engage in formal Technical Vocational Education and Training, decent work, and expand their learning opportunities. It highlights the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) as a powerful and empowering tool that has a key role to…

Female Labor Force Participation in Asia and the Pacific: Contributing Factors and Policy Implications

20 May 2015
This presentation shares an overview of how Asia fares globally in terms of female labor participation and enumerates the common factors that hinder women from joining the labor force. It also tackles recommended actions that policymakers can take to address the issue.

Increasing Land and Water Productivity at Community-Level Using Remote Sensing

19 May 2015
This presentation introduces the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) as a remote-sensing model for evapotranspiration. Through SEBAL, crop production and irrigation information can be sent to farmers through the use of technology. To be able to fully utilize this model, however, would…

Remote Sensing for Improved Irrigation in Central Asia

19 May 2015
One of the challenges in irrigation management is difficulty in assessing irrigation performance due to the lack of cost-effective evaluation methods. The use of satellite remote sensing, particularly evapotranspiration and crop cover maps, is seen as a potential solution.