Making Infrastructure Work for Women and Men

This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure portfolio, and to establish a baseline for monitoring and enhancing gender integration in line with commitments made for the 2006 gender action plan. The portfolio review reveals important progress on gender integration in infrastructure operations. While an average of 14 percent of infrastructure projects in 1995 applied some attention to gender concerns in 1995, this climbed to 36 percent by 2009. The global average, moreover, hides large strides made over time in four regions. In 2009, East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Africa all included gender concerns in the design of at least 50 percent of their infrastructure projects. Hard work remains in consolidating and extending the gains in gender coverage across the infrastructure portfolio. This will require stronger management commitment, concerted efforts, a plan with targets to achieve sustainable results, resources, specialist staffing, and capacity enhancement of staff. The portfolio review repeatedly found that supporting gender equality and women's empowerment in infrastructure operations have large benefits for the communities; the actions not only increased women's opportunities but also enhanced project effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2010
Subjects:	ACCESS FOR WOMEN, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ACCESS TO MARKETS, ACCESS TO SERVICES, ACCOUNTABILITY, ADB, ADVOCACY, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, BANKING SYSTEM, BENEFITS FOR WOMEN, BOTTLENECKS, BUS, BUS STATIONS, BUS STOPS, CITIES, COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY GROUPS, CONFERENCE ON WOMEN, COUNTRY GENDER ASSESSMENTS, CRIME, CROSSWALKS, DESCRIPTION, DISCRIMINATION, DISCRIMINATORY LAWS, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, ELECTRICITY SERVICES, EMPLOYMENT, EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, ENGINEER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, EQUITABLE ACCESS, FEMALE, FEMALE ENGINEERS, FUEL, FUELS, GENDER, GENDER ACTION, GENDER ANALYSIS, GENDER BALANCE, GENDER BASED DISPARITIES, GENDER CONCERNS, GENDER DIFFERENCES, GENDER DIMENSIONS, GENDER DISPARITIES, GENDER DISPARITY, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER EQUALITY GOALS, GENDER EQUALITY IN ACCESS, GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES, GENDER FOCAL POINT, GENDER FOCUS, GENDER IMPACT, GENDER INEQUALITIES, GENDER ISSUES, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, GENDER NORMS, GENDER POLICY, GENDER QUOTAS, GENDER ROLES, GENDER SPECIALISTS, GENDER SPECIFIC, GENDER STRATEGIES, GENDER TARGETS, GENDER TRAINING, GENDER UNIT, GIRLS, GRASSROOTS WOMEN, HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS, HOME, HOUSEHOLD MAINTENANCE, HOUSEHOLDS, HUSBANDS, INDIGENOUS WOMEN, INFORMAL EDUCATION, INFORMAL SECTOR, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES, INSURANCE, INTEGRATION OF GENDER, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN, INTERVENTIONS, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKETS, LEGAL STATUS, LITERACY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL PARTICIPATION, LOCAL WOMEN, LOCALITIES, MANDATES, MARRIED WOMEN, MICROFINANCE, MOBILITY, NEIGHBORHOOD, OPERATING COSTS, OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN, PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN, PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT, PEDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS, PEDESTRIAN NEEDS, POOR WOMEN, PRODUCTIVITY, PROGRESS TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY, PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, PUBLIC SERVICES, RAILWAY, REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN, RESETTLEMENT, RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS, RESOURCE MOBILIZATION, RING ROADS, ROAD, ROAD MAINTENANCE, ROADS, ROLE OF WOMEN, RURAL AREAS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL ROADS, RURAL WOMEN, SAFETY, SANITATION, SAVINGS, SELF-HELP, SEX, SEX WORKERS, SHOPS, SIDEWALKS, SLUM, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SPEED BUMPS, STREET LIGHTING, STREET LIGHTS, SUBSIDIARY, SUPPORT SERVICES, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TIRES, TRANSPARENCY, TRANSPORT, TRANSPORT MEASURES, TRANSPORT SECTOR, TRANSPORT SERVICES, TRIPS, TRUST FUNDS, UNDP, UNITED NATIONS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, URBAN TRANSPORT, VEHICLES, VILLAGES, VIOLENCE, WAGES, WALKING, WATER SUPPLY, WID, WILL, WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS, WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT, WOMEN MANAGERS, WOMEN'S STATUS, YOUNG WOMEN, YOUTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/240311468330964719/Making-infrastructure-work-for-women-and-man-a-review-of-World-Bank-infrastructure-projects-1995-2009 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/28131
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