VIDEO: DAY 1 Transforming Women's Lives through Infrastructure Sector Training on Gender Mainstreaming

The 4-day gender training is targeted at staff in ADB HQ Sector Divisions and Resident Mission Operations Departments to ensure a better understanding of key gender issues and possible gender entry points in three infrastructure sectors: transport; water; and energy. Participants will learn from experts and peer exchange of project experiences on good practices on gender. Participants will also increase their knowledge of ADB’s gender categorization system and related requirements in the project cycle through background reading and plenary discussion.

Yuanyuan Deng

Yuanyuan Deng is a CEPAR Senior Research Associate. She is an applied microeconomist with broad empirical interests focusing on Health Economics, Public Economics, and Labor Economics. Her research has been supported by the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) and the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College.

Junghee Oh

Junghee Oh is an intern for Gender Equality Thematic Group under Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department at Asian Development Bank. She is currently on a Master in Public Policy program at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in National University of Singapore. Her interests are on Asian politics and international cooperation on gender, food, and health. Junghee has five years of experience as a broadcast reporter at South Korea’s global broadcaster Arirang TV. Her main area of coverage was foreign affairs and security issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula.

Pakistan Gender-Based Violence Court: Handbook and Training Manual for Prosecutors

This training manual contains the presentations corresponding to each module of the Gender-Based Violence Court: Handbook and Training Manual for Prosecutors. Additionally, it provides ready reference to the international treaties, human rights instruments, national laws, and global and domestic jurisprudence discussed in all the module presentations.

Sreylin Meng

Sreylin Meng is the CEO and co-founder of Smart Farm Assistance. She has always been frustrated about how Cambodian farmers are struggling to get a proper livelihood even if they are working very hard.

She had the chance to be the 1st one in my family to pursue higher education, and she has chosen the field of ICT and e-commerce education as a hope that this knowledge could be useful to support farmers in Cambodia, on a bigger scale.