EAPGIL’s mission is to generate evidence on what works—and does not—to promote gender equality in East Asia and Pacific and to translate evidence into better policies and programs. EAPGIL adopts a holistic approach, working with partners at every stage of the policy-making process, from setting the policy agenda to designing policies, programs, and interventions, to evaluating whether these programs achieve their goals. Beyond evaluating programs after they have taken place, EAPGIL views rigorous research as a cycle; previous findings can be used to inform future priorities and the design of interventions, which, in turn, can be evaluated to generate more evidence and further refine policies.
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- “ World Bank . 2024 . What Have We Learned from EAPGIL Research? Accomplishments and Lessons Learned from the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Gender Innovation Lab: 2016 – 2024 . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41905 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO . ”
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- United States of America
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- 192185
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- CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
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- World Bank
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- EAP Chief Economist Unit (EAPCE)
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- https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41905
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- 2024-07-18
- region geographical
- East Asia , Oceania
- theme
- Human Development and Gender,Gender
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Table of Contents
- Accomplishments and Lessons Learned from the World Banks East Asia and Pacific Gender Innovation Lab 1
- Table of Contents 3
- Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3
- Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3
- Introduction From Evidence to Action The EAPGIL Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3
- Section 1 EAPGIL Accomplishments 201624 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3
- Section 2 Lessons from EAPGIL Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3
- Section 3 Priorities for Future EAPGIL Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3
- Appendix 1 List of EAPGIL Impact Evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3
- Appendix 2 List of EAPGIL Inferential Research Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3
- Executive Summary 5
- Conducts Research on Gender Gaps 5
- Designs Innovative Solutions to Gendered Constraints 5
- Evaluates Programs and Policies 5
- Engages Policy Makers 5
- What Is EAPGIL 5
- Completed 9 Impact Evaluations 5
- Conducted 25 Inferential Research Studies on 6 Themes 5
- Published 5
- What Has EAPGIL Learned 6
- Supporting Entrepreneurship 6
- Closing Gender Gaps in Agriculture 6
- Social Protection and Womens Empowerment 7
- Childcare and Womens Work 7
- Building and Protecting Human Capital 8
- Measuring Agency 8
- Introduction 9
- From Evidence to Action The EAPGIL Model 9
- Design Evaluate Engage Research 9
- Research 10
- Design 10
- Evaluate 10
- Engage 11
- A collaborative process 13
- Section 1 15
- EAPGIL Accomplishments 201624 15
- Section 2 17
- Lessons from EAPGIL Research 17
- 2.1. 17
- Removing Barriers to Productivity for Female Entrepreneurs and Farmers 17
- Gender gaps in entrepreneurship depend on business size and are driven by differences in inputs 18
- Skills training financial inclusion and reducing womens domestic care burden can be effective interventions to close gender gaps 19
- Lower access to inputs and unclear land tenure are barriers to productivity for female farmers 21
- 2.2. 23
- Social Protection and Womens Empowerment 23
- Public works programs are effective in reducing poverty but may not create sustainable impacts 23
- Conditional cash transfers can have long-term impacts even when participation is brief 24
- Social protection programs can mitigate gender-based violence although the type of violence matters 24
- Local knowledge is important for accurate targeting of social protection 25
- 2.3. 25
- Childcare and Womens Work 25
- Womens unequal burden of domestic and care work affects their economic prospects and decisions 25
- Childcare can improve womens economic participation and the economy as a whole 27
- Trust and social norms can pose challenges to the expansion of childcare services 28
- 2.4. 28
- Building and Protecting Womens Human Capital 28
- Socioemotional skills programs are promising but not a panacea 28
- Clean cooking technology can improve womens health 29
- 2.5. 30
- Measuring Womens Agency 30
- What aspects of decision-making are important for womens agency 30
- How can gender-based violence be accurately and safely measured 31
- Section 3 33
- Priorities for Future EAPGIL Research 33
- 3.1. 33
- Gender and Climate 33
- 3.2. 34
- Childcare and Eldercare 34
- 3.3. 35
- Fostering Women Leaders 35
- 3.4. 35
- Ending Gender-Based Violence 35
- 3.5. 36
- Supporting Womens Livelihoods 36
- Appendix 1 37
- List of EAPGIL Impact Evaluations 37
- Promoting Agent Banking through Supply and Demand Incentives 37
- Youth Aspirations and Career Choices in Indonesia 38
- Road Maintenance Groups in Laos 38
- Laos Clean Cookstoves Initiative 39
- Philippines Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program CARP 39
- Philippines Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program 4Ps 40
- Rural Road Improvement in Vietnam 40
- Community-Based Childcare Centers for Garment Factory Workers 40
- Mobile Clinics for Social Inclusion in Indonesia 41
- Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling SPLIT Project 41
- Fiji Jobs for Nature 2.0 41
- Innovations in Childcare for Social Inclusion in Indonesia 42
- Tonga Pathways to Employment 42
- Appendix 2 43
- List of EAPGIL Inferential Research Projects 43
- Female Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia 43
- Boosting Womens Earnings and Employment Opportunities 44
- Childcare 44
- Gendered Dimensions of Human Capital Outcomes 45
- Targeting of Social Assistance Programs 46
- Measurement 46
