Cambodia Women's Empowerment Project - Bamboo Crafting
Improving Bamboo Handicraft Value Chains for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Lao and Cambodia – a UN Women Results-based Initiative in collaboration with The World Bank, International Centre for Research on Women, Prosperity Initiative.
Launched in September 2006, the World Bank Group Gender Action Plan sought to advance women’s economic empowerment in developing countries as a way to promote shared growth and accelerate the implementation of Millennium Development Goal 3. Results-Based Initiatives (RBIs) that promote women’s economic empowerment constitutes one of the Plan’s four action areas.
The Results-Based Initiatives are funded by the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (DGF). The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), now UN Women, is the executing agency in charge of implementing the intervention and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) will design and conduct the impact evaluations which constitute the second component. The initiative will also engage local partners.
The pilot RBI initiatives are in line with UNIFEM’s mandate to support innovative and experimental activities benefiting women (in line with national and regional priorities) whilst at the same time playing a catalytic role in ensuring the appropriate involvement of women in mainstream activities. In addition they are in line with UNIFEM’s overall goal to assist in implementing national commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in both stable and fragile states. In particular they relate to UNIFEM’s Economic Thematic Area which seeks to enhance women’s economic security and rights.
Photo: UN Women/Va Ros
Cambodia Women's Empowerment Project - Bamboo Crafting
Improving Bamboo Handicraft Value Chains for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Lao and Cambodia – a UN Women Results-based Initiative in collaboration with The World Bank, International Centre for Research on Women, Prosperity Initiative.
Launched in September 2006, the World Bank Group Gender Action Plan sought to advance women’s economic empowerment in developing countries as a way to promote shared growth and accelerate the implementation of Millennium Development Goal 3. Results-Based Initiatives (RBIs) that promote women’s economic empowerment constitutes one of the Plan’s four action areas.
The Results-Based Initiatives are funded by the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (DGF). The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), now UN Women, is the executing agency in charge of implementing the intervention and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) will design and conduct the impact evaluations which constitute the second component. The initiative will also engage local partners.
The pilot RBI initiatives are in line with UNIFEM’s mandate to support innovative and experimental activities benefiting women (in line with national and regional priorities) whilst at the same time playing a catalytic role in ensuring the appropriate involvement of women in mainstream activities. In addition they are in line with UNIFEM’s overall goal to assist in implementing national commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in both stable and fragile states. In particular they relate to UNIFEM’s Economic Thematic Area which seeks to enhance women’s economic security and rights.
Photo: UN Women/Va Ros