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Empowering women and girls.
adB-supported projects in Uzbekistan help improve girls’ and women’s access to
education, training, employment, and livelihood opportunities (photos by Women's Committee of Uzbekistan and adB).
CONTENTS
TABLES, FIGUrES, AND BOxES v
FOrEWOrD vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
ExECUTIVE SUMMAry
xi
ABBrEVIATIONS xxiii
GLOSSAry xxiv
I. INTrODUCTION
1
a. Methodology
1
B. Gender equality Issues
2
C. Gender and development Indicators
3
d. Overview of International Commitments
5
II. CrOSSCUTTING GENDEr EQUALITy ISSUES
9
a. Sex-disaggregated data
and Statistics
9
B. Women’s political participation
9
C. employment and the Labor Market
11
d. Gender Roles and Norms
15
e. property Rights and access to Resources
16
III. MAINSTrEAMING GENDEr IN ADB OPErATIONS, By SECTOr
18
a. energy
18
B. Water Supply and Sanitation
25
C. Finance
34
d. Housing for the Integrated Rural development Investment program
45
e. agriculture and Natural Resources
50
F.
transport and Roads
56
G. Health
62
H. education
66
TABLES, FIGUrES, AND BOxES
Tables
1 Basic Statistics
3
2 Sex-Disaggregation in Decision-Making Bodies, 2017
10
3 Sex-Disaggregation of Uzbekenergo JSC Staff
19
4 Access to Water Supply and Sanitation, 2014–2016
26
5 Sex-Disaggregation of Water Supply Sector Staff, 2014–2016
28
6 Sex-Disaggregation
of Urban and Rural Population, January 2018
50
7 Sex-Disaggregation of Automobile, River, and Railway Transport Staff, 2014–2016
58
8 Sex-Disaggregation in Professional Medical Educational Institutions
65
and among Work Personnel
9 Enrollment in Secondary General and Secondary Special Education,
68
2016–2017 Academic Year
10 Sex-Disaggregation of Management in Secondary General Education
71
11 Sex-Disaggregation of Female Staff in Higher Education
73
Figures
1 Average Monthly Nominal
Accrued Wages of Employees, by Sphere
12
of Economic Activity, 2016
2 Women-Led Businesses, by Sector, 2017
35
3 Commercial Bank in Support of Women Entrepreneurs
38
4 Teachers (Core Staff), Academic Year 2015–2016
70
vi
Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Boxes
1 Uzbekistan National Action Plan, 2014–2016
7
2 Talimarjan Power Project—Outcomes of the Gender Action Plan
21
3 Advanced Electricity Metering Project—Outcomes
of Gender Action Plan
23
4 Surkhandarya Water Supply and Sanitation Project—Outcomes
30
of the Gender Action Plan
5 Water Supply and Sanitation in the Andijan Region—Outcomes
31
of the Gender Action Plan
6 Water Resource Management Project—Outcomes of the Gender Action Plan
32
7 Outcomes of Human Resources Gender Policy in Participating Commercial Banks
43
8 Outcomes of Clientele-Oriented Gender Policy in Participating Commercial Banks
44
9 Housing for Integrated Rural Development Investment Program—
49
Outcomes of the Gender Action Plan
10 Horticulture Value Chain Development Project—
54
Outcomes of the Gender Action Plan
11 Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Project—
61
Outcomes of the Gender Action Plan
FOrEWOrD
C
ooperation between the Women’s Committee
of Uzbekistan and the asian
development Bank (adB) began in the 2000s, when adB supported the publication of
the
