Sustaining and Strengthening Gender Mainstreaming in Central and West Asia

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The technical assistance (TA) cluster will strengthen gender mainstreaming mechanisms and gender equality results in Central and West Asia (CWA) by moving forward the achievements made under C-TA 0046-REG (a current TA cluster on gender). The TA cluster subprojects and gender actions under the proposed TA cluster will be aligned with ADB's climate change priorities and gender transformative approaches following Operational Priority 2.1 and 6.1. To achieve this, the TA cluster will: (i) continue mainstreaming of gender design features in the project pipeline, particularly in challenging sectors to achieve gender equity theme (GEN) or effective gender mainstreaming (EGM) categorization; (ii) expand capacity development initiatives for executing agencies and implementing agencies (EAs/IAs) to include gender transformative approaches and integrate gender considerations in climate change policies and programs; and (iii) strengthen national gender mainstreaming capacities by targeting national women's agencies to develop their capacity in planning, monitoring and resource allocation at the sectoral level. The TA cluster will support gender designs of ensuing projects in the CWA region, capacity building of EAs/IAs and other stakeholders, knowledge events and products, and strengthening of gender networks.