| | July 3, 2018 | | WHAT TO KNOW NOW | | |  | By Kelli Rogers | |    | | | | Despite the lack of a targeted gender policy, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank hasn't been ignoring gender in its work, the bank's principal social specialist Michaela Bergman told Devex at the AIIB's third annual meeting in Mumbai last week.
The China-backed bank, which began operations in January 2016, is taking the time to think about how it can "add value, be effective, efficient, and actually make a difference in the end," said Bergman.
"What you want to do is make a difference to women or men on the ground — or both — and [think about] how can we do that with our limited resources," she said. | | | | | | | | Photo by: Lean Santos | | | | Between now and 2030, Asia's investment in infrastructure must rise to $2 trillion a year, or roughly triple what it has been in the past, AIIB President Jin Liqun said at last week's meetings. It is both an opportunity and a challenge, considering that the way infrastructure is designed, constructed, and managed can have the potential to increase, maintain, or reduce gender gaps.
Throughout the annual meeting, several high-level bank officials pointed to AIIB's rural roads projects in India as an example of progress. In the country's westernmost state of Gujarat, a $329-million loan is meant to support the improvement of rural roads for 1,060 villages.
"Connectivity is essential for accessing health and education and for participating in the market economy," Jin said. "These roads will benefit 8 million people, of whom one-sixth are below the poverty line."
But the benefits of that project, which claims that roughly 46 percent of individuals who will benefit are female, may not actually be shared by women. That's because when rural roads open, men are more likely to migrate, while women often remain constrained by needing permission to pursue employment outside of their villages.
In the future, Bergman would like to establish priority sectors and countries for increased gender impact, examining both access to infrastructure and employment opportunities for women in nontraditional sectors such as transport and construction. For now, "we already have a structure, it's just not a gender policy, and that's what we'll build upon," she said. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | QUOTABLE | "When you are trying to apply to these big organizations … you beat the applicant tracking system, you get the interview, but then there's this sense when you get there: Are you good enough? … Why did I have to ask whether I was good enough? I have three master's degrees, I speak fluent French… A lot of times, women of color — certainly black women — are constantly needing to be better." — Angela Bruce-Raeburn, associate director for advocacy at Global Health Advocacy Incubator, on race, leadership and global development. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SPOTLIGHT ON | | | | | | By Jonathan Simons,
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