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Exploring Factors that Enhance and Restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification: Scoping Study Report

30 March 2016
This report examines how policy and practice may enhance women’s empowerment though electrification in rural areas in the South. It presents the results of a desk study in which empirical literature on women’s empowerment from electrification and international initiatives and national electricity…

Water and Urban Development (Overview)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Water and Urban Development (South Asia)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations in South Asia and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Water and Urban Development (Central and West Asia)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations in Central and West Asia and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Water and Urban Development (East Asia)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations in East Asia and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Water and Urban Development (Southeast Asia)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations in Southeast Asia and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Water and Urban Development (Pacific)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Water and Urban Development operations in the Pacific and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

Strengthening Enterprises through Gender Capacity Building

3 March 2016
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves explicitly prioritizes women’s empowerment in its mission statement. It implements a robust gender capacity building program to ensure cooking sector enterprises prioritize and understand how to integrate gender throughout their business models.

Growing Cities, Hungry Mouths, and Women Farmers: Why Participation Counts

22 January 2016
Multiple challenges such as limited recognition impede women’s participation in the agriculture sector. More can be achieved in irrigation when women farmers are encouraged to participate and reach their full potential in light of changing economic and social patterns, increasing populations, and…

Promoting Good Governance in Irrigation

22 January 2016
This document presents a broadened perspective of governance in irrigation. It discusses these three key aspects: (i) lessons learned and opportunities to strengthen institutional, policy, and legal frameworks to improve performance; (ii) changing rural dynamics and the feminization of agriculture…