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Vocational training and job placement in local restaurants or hotels for 18 poor and disadvantaged women in Can Tho City.

National university scholarship program to provide 200 scholarships for young women to pursue higher education degrees in a variety of fields including engineering and medicine.

Technical and financial support for poor women and women with HIV/AIDS in the northern mountainous province of Phu Tho and in Hanoi to set up their own cooperatives.

Scholarship program for migrant women workers in the Pearl River Delta.

Tertiary education scholarships for more than 50 girls from Kampong Cham province who have been part of KAPE’s primary and secondary education scholarship program for underprivileged girls.

Improving women’s livelihoods and increasing their income to empower families and communities; Deterring domestic violence.

Scholarship program for migrant women workers in the Lower Yangtze River Valley; Financial literacy and income savings training for migrant women workers in Jiangsu Province.

Strengthening the capacity of the Directorate of Women’s Affairs and the Women’s Job Readiness Initiative in Kandahar province.

Community agricultural training and women’s rural enterprise development in the Bamiyan Family Park; Incorporating psychosocial training curriculum for Afghan school girls into the Kabul University’s Psychology Department’s professional training program.

Helping homeless and isolated women recover from the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake in two pilot communities by increasing the market development capacity of Qiang ethnic embroidery products, implementing community recovery and reconstruction plans that were co-developed by women in the community, and setting up a women’s livelihood reconstruction fund.

Strengthening the capacity of the Directorate of Women’s Affairs and the Women’s Job Readiness Initiative in Kabul province.

Scholarship program for Chinese footwear workers that supports part-time college-level education for 92 footwear workers in Guangdong Province.

Scholarship program for Chinese footwear workers that supports 200 footwear workers to enroll in part-time vocational school education in Guangdong Province.

Providing four-year scholarships to 60 disadvantaged young women to study hard sciences at two of Mongolia’s top universities—the National University of Mongolia and Mongolia University of Science and Technology.

Providing marketable vocational training for 18 poor and disadvantaged women in Can Tho city; Support for job placement of these women in local restaurants or hotels.

Technical and financial support for poor women and women with HIV/AIDS in the Northern mountainous province of Phu Tho and in Hanoi to set up their own cooperatives.

Organizing and training groups of women in non-traditional production methods and business skills for livelihood development. Implemented in: district Quetta in Balochistan; districts Sukker and Khairpur in Sindh; districts Mansehra, Haripur, Abbotabad, and Chitral in NWFP; and Rawalpindi in Punjab.

Scholarship Program for Chinese Footwear Workers; Supporting part-time college-level education for 92 migrant footwear workers in Guangdong Province.

Scholarship for Chinese migrant women workers in Pearl River Delta and wrap-up activities.

Coordinating with Rabia-e Balkhi High School Resource Center to provide IT training for 1,200 female students; Operating costs for Rabia-e Balkhi High School Resource Center.

Assisting women to improve their livelihoods and increase income to empower families and communities; Deterring domestic violence and recruitment by traffickers.

Embroidery training and placement in a local company that produces and exports embroidery products to 35 young and disadvantaged girls and women in Nam Dinh province.

Third-year and wrap-up activities of the "Scholarship Program for Migrant Women Workers" in the Lower Yangtze River Valley; Financial literacy and income savings training for migrant women workers in Jiangsu Province.

Project to help homeless and isolated women recover from the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake in two pilot communities by offering individual counseling, providing partial support to rebuild houses of the homeless, increasing the market development capacity of Qiang ethnic embroidery products, developing community recovery and reconstruction plans by involving women, and setting up a women's livelihood reconstruction fund.

Enhance capacity for the An Giang Vocational Training Center to provide necessary skills trainings on household services to disadvantaged girls and women in An Giang.

Civic education program on development planning and budget processes in Aceh, promoting community awareness of the impact of local government budget allocations as well as promoting women’s participation in the local budgetary and development planning processes.

Technical assistance for local government and civil society organizations in Bone District, South Sulawesi and the City of Pare-Pare, to promote gender mainstreaming into development planning and budgeting as well as to promote gender responsive, pro-poor and equitable local budgets; Budget advocacy program in the District of Pekalongan and Boyolali and City of Semarang, Central Java, supporting women’s participation in the development planning and budgetary processes, providing community education on budget literacy and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective; Publication of the second edition of the manual for gender budget advocacy.

Publication of a reference book on gender auditing technical assistance to local government and civil society organizations in Tana Toraja District, South Sulawesi, to ensure that budgetary and development planning processes take into account gender issues and that budget allocations respond to the needs of women, the poor, and other disadvantaged groups.

Budget advocacy program in the City of Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi, providing education on budget literacy to communities, particularly women, and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective; Publication of a gender profile book with information on experiences and lessons learned in conducting budget advocacy, and information on the status of women in the City of Pare-Pare.

A pilot effort to uplift women from poverty through non-traditional approaches by introducing high value added processes that are suitable for on-farm and off-farm activities; Establishing self-supporting Mobile Business Service Units for women, enabling them to organize in groups and take business knowledge and skills directly to clients.

Budget advocacy program in the City of Makassar, South Sulawesi, providing community education on budget literacy and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective.

The finance of a contract for Yellow Pages to publish the 2008 Business Association Directory and map Cambodian Business Associations in order to improve visibility of business associations and increase the networking capacity of micro, small, and medium enterprises.

Basic computer skills training to benefit migrant women workers in Guangzhou City.

Computer skills training for migrant women workers in Guangzhou and Zhongshan, Guangdong Province; Scholarship for migrant women workers in the Pearl River Delta.

Basic computer skills training to benefit migrant women workers in Guzhen Town, Zhongshan City.

Large-scale survey of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and large enterprises in 24 provinces that will be constructed into a Provincial Business Environment Scorecard (PBES). The PBES ranks provinces according to their business environments and is designed to enhance private sector growth and job creation by providing information and incentives to improve the local business environment for MSMEs and large enterprises; A Panel Group Survey of MSMEs within the 10 provinces surveyed in the first Provincial Business Environment Scorecard in 2006 in order to evaluate the evolution of perception of MSMEs on the progress of business environment.

Technical assistance for local government and civil society organizations in the City of Palu, Central Sulawesi, to promote gender mainstreaming into local development planning and budgeting as well as to promote gender responsive, pro-poor, and equitable local budgets; Budget advocacy program providing community education on budget literacy and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective; Publication of gender profile book with information on experiences and lessons learned in conducting budget advocacy and information on the status of women in the City of Palu.

Publication of technical guideline for carrying out gender sensitive and pro-poor local development planning meetings and Government Working Unit Forums (Forum SKPD) meetings.

Budget advocacy program in Bone District, South Sulawesi, providing community education on budget literacy and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective; Publication of a gender profile book with information on experiences and lessons learned in conducting budget advocacy, and information on the status of women in Bone District.

Vocational opportunities for junior high school girls in Kampong Cham province who are not able to continue their study at upper secondary level.

Budget advocacy program in Tana Toraja District, South Sulawesi, providing community education on budget literacy and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective; Publication of a gender profile book with information on experiences and lessons learned in conducting budget advocacy, and information on the status of women in Tana Toraja District.

In close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, support for the integration of gender considerations into the technical guidelines of the Specific Budget Allocation (Dana Alokasi Khusus – DAK) of the health sector and particularly the building standards of Community Health Centers (PUSKESMAS).

Assisting women in improving their livelihoods and increasing income in order to empower families and communities; Deterring domestic violence and recruitment by traffickers.

Embroidery training and job placement for poor women in Nam Dinh province.

Second-year activities of the “Scholarship Program for Migrant Women Workers” in the Lower Yangtze River Valley; Financial literacy and income savings training for migrant women workers in Jiangsu province.

Strengthening the network of budgeting organizations and increasing their understanding of gender responsive budgeting through the “2nd National Forum on Gender Responsive and Pro-Poor Budget” for more than 100 organizations across Indonesia.

Organization of a workshop to raise awareness of Cambodia’s commitments to the World Trade Organization and areas of progress in economy, finance, trade, investment, telecommunications, and energy, and to foster a discussion among the parliamentarians, the public sector and the private sector on the impact of Cambodia’s membership to the World Trade Organization; Organization of a series of workshops to strengthen the capacity of the Cambodian Parliament in the policy-making process, to help Members of Parliament work more effectively with the executive in shaping economic policy reforms, and to provide an opportunity to learn from neighboring countries’ experiences.

Development of social entrepreneurial and leadership skills for 20 young women in Qinghai province by providing an opportunity for a selected group of 20 Tibetan women currently enrolled in Qinghai Normal University to develop their leadership and problem-solving skills through internships with leading NGOs in various regions of China.

Continued support to link pre-departure training for prospective migrant workers in Sichuan with recruitment, employment, and social support services at workers’ destinations in Shanghai and Guangdong.

Technical assistance for local government and civil society organizations in the Polewali Mandar District, West Sulawesi, to promote gender mainstreaming into local development planning and budgeting as well as to promote gender responsive, pro-poor and equitable local budgets; Budget advocacy program in Polewali Mandar District, West Sulawesi, providing community education on budget literacy and increasing the capacity of civil society organizations to analyze local budgetary planning processes with a gender perspective; Publishing of a gender profile book with information on experiences and lessons learned in conducting budget advocacy, and information on the status of women in Polewali Mandar District.

Continued comprehensive and extended counseling, educational and training services to six pilot factories in the Wujiang Industrial Development District in Wujiang County, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. The program helps migrant women workers develop self-confidence and life skills to adapt to industrial cities and helps build social support networks for migrant workers in the Wujiang community.

Poverty Alleviation Program for Rural Ethnic Women in Turpan prefecture and Toutunhe district of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Program activities included capacity building for women’s groups and rural ethnic women, development of women’s mutual-help and information exchange groups, micro-loan projects, and documentation and dissemination of program results.

Establish self-supporting Mobile Business Service Units for women to facilitate the
provision of business advice to peoples’ doorsteps.  It enables women to organize in groups
and take business knowledge, skills and linkages directly to clients.

Improving and expanding training, education, and counseling projects for migrant women
workers in the Pearl River Delta and the Lower Yangtze River Valley through small-business establishment, career development and nursing training; computer training for migrant women workers in Sanxiang and Guangzhou, Guangdong Province; educational scholarships for migrant women workers in the Pearl River Delta.

Seminar series and talk shows to encourage women in Sulawesi to register their businesses;
Improvement of the organizational and advocacy capacity of SME associations, including the
women’s small business association in Sulawesi. Increased formalization allows women’s
businesses to access credit and markets.

Establish four “one-stop” repair shops for young women trained in motorcycle mechanics and electronics repair.

Prevent trafficking in women and children and increase effective women’s participation in
addressing this problem in Vietnam through prevention education and community monitoring support, vocational/technical training, business development and management training for at risk beneficiaries, provision of micro-credit, and strengthening Women’s Union program management capacity; Organize cross-border workshops with Cambodia and China to promote bilateral cooperation; Develop training materials on laws related to trafficking for VWU staff at all levels; Support legal training for VWU staff at the central and grassroots levels to improve their understanding of legal issues and enhance their capacity to participate in the policymaking process.