East Asia and the Pacific

This report is a synthesis of the workshop ‘Towards Liberating Democracy: Devolution of Power Matters’(Bangkok, Thailand, 2007). The workshop drew on experiences from Aceh, Mindanao, West Papua and southern Thailand to address the nexus between democracy, conflict and human security.

This manual specifically seeks to build understanding of gender responsive budgeting as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women’s rights as well as efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes.

This research paper discusses how improving women’s decisionmaking power relative to men’s within households leads to improvements in a variety of well-being outcomes for children.

This report describes the processes and challenges faced by the Central Asian countries moving towards creating gender equality in governance.

This document contains the reports from four panels featured in the seminar, "Emerging Issues in Asia," held in April 1999.

International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) is a non-profit international women's organization based in the South.

The Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) is a non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental regional organization (NGO) dedicated to promoting equal participation of women in politics and decision-making.

This report is an account of the Fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial Meeting, "Celebrating Beijing Plus Ten.” It provides an overview of the presentations, discussions and recommendations given at the meeting; contains the consensus document "Islamabad Declaration: Review and Future Action," a

This report compiles the results of a seminar entitled, "Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including From a Gender Perspective," held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in May 2003.