Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in ASEAN Project

The Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (WEL in ASEAN) project was implemented to strengthen the capacity of WROs to be able to influence laws and policies for women’s economic leadership and empowerment in the formal and informal sectors of the AEC. The project commenced in June 2014 and ended in October 2017. Partner-beneficiaries of the WEL in ASEAN project are WROs in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines including: Gender and Development Cambodia (GADC), Association for Development of Women and Legal Education (ADWLE), NGO Gender Group (NGO GG), Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED), Foundation for Women (FFW), and Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB).