P035813 | ECA | Azerbaijan Agricultural Development and Credit Project | Involves establishment of rural information and advisory services, MIS for credit cooperatives. The project recognizes the importance of focusing on the specific problems of women in rural areas. One concern is the information needs of rural women to land titles. |
| P065927 | AFR | Cameroon Public/Private Partnership Growth Project | Aims to improve business environment and competitiveness to increase private investment and strengthen the poverty alleviation focus in government's economic management. High awareness of gender aspects of poverty. ICT component is computerization and development of poverty information system, using gender indicators, and website, with awareness of gender issues and access of both men and women to information. Emphasizes participatory approach to include women and gender sensitivity in all project indicators. |
P000968 | AFR | Ghana Agricultural Services Project | Aim of project is ICT diffusion, strengthening information systems. Involves increasing number of extension agents, gender training of extension agents, and diffusion of information to women farmers. Project will establish a sex-disaggregated database of food and agricultural statistics to support gender responsive training. |
P050658 | SAR | India Third Technician Education Project | The project provides training to Indian workers in fields that are crucial to economic growth, with a focus on information technology. Women account for about 40 percent of students in participating technical institutions, as well as for a large share of the country's high-tech work-force. The project provides scholarships and housing to female students, enabling them to study in their home states. |
P073483 | ECA | Macedonia Children and Youth Development Project (LIL) | A technology training program in the former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia (part of a social cohesion project) aimed at at-risk girls and boys from various socio-cultural background and from ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the country's education system. |
P066938 | LCR | Mexico Gender Equity Project | Project has an information system with a gender focus to promote gender equality through community-based initiatives, gender awareness programs and an information system to gather and analyzed gender-disaggregated data regarding gender issues. |
P069824 | AFR | Mozambique Higher Education Project | Provides Internet access to colleges and universities and increases women's access to higher education by using information and communication technology to teach courses. The project has also increased capacity in using such technology and provided poor female high school students with scholarships for public and private universities. In addition, the project funds innovative proposals for improving girls' access to higher education, including the use of technology. |
P001808 | AFR | Mozambique Mineral Resources Management Capacity Building Project | Project designed to provide information systems for geology, including GIS, to have better geoscientific and natural resources information for investors. Given the heavy involvement of women and children in mining, the project addresses gender issues in artisanal mining. The Ministry of Mines is setting up a social and economic studies section at the Ministry of Mines to undertake gender studies. Consultative approach included gender analysis. Women miners are participating in implementation of the project, including identification of information to include in the information systems. |
P047690 | LCR | Peru Agricultural Research and Extension Project | Involves technology development and transfer, access of farmers to technology, improving market information systems. The project is developing a manual to ensure the participation of women in all activities, and is developing methods to reach rural women. Women are to be adequately represented as extension agents (using information technology) and beneficiaries. ICT service providers will be selected in part on the basis of their capability to work with women. |
P002753 | AFR | Tanzania National Agricultural Extension Program (NAEP) (02) | Providing communication support for decentralized information management, the project established Zonal Communication Centers and units accessible to and with outreach to rural women. Women's issues were included in training at Zonal Communication Centers, and 30 percent of seats were reserved for women. |
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