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Why does meaningful youth engagement matter in promoting young women’s economic empowerment, and how do we promote this in our work?

In the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, an urban water project helped women to become water engineers through scholarships, training, and mentoring.

Investments should seek to strengthen women’s capacities to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change and contribute to sustainable development. 

Efforts to provide rural infrastructure and sanitation facilities can be opportunities for gender mainstreaming.

Putting resources toward specialized training, mentoring and confidence building is a successful formula for giving greater voice to women in the countryside.

Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.

In Maldives, community participation played a key role in the recovery of affected communities after the 2004 tsunami.

While many inclusive businesses support the concept of gender-inclusivity, much more can be done to ensure that women’s economic empowerment is promoted in the workplace.

The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.

Microfinance anchored on civil society organizations is a promising model in banking the unbanked.