Asian development bank

recommendations

Current pipeline road projects seeking to incorporate gender-responsive roadside facilities and improve gender mainstreaming in future construction activities should

• construct separate washrooms, well-lit rest areas, mother and baby rooms, and other facilities for safe and timely women’s movement;¹⁸⁵

  
  

• allocate separate kiosks in market areas to improve sales activities;

  
  

• develop gender-responsive land acquisition and resettlement plans;

  
  

• consider the specificity of women-led businesses and their social roles, and envision allocating more resources for developing or rehabilitating feeder roads in rural areas to ease women’s daily activities and livelihoods; and

  
  

• support women entering business by including them in roadside enterprises. the government should”:

  
  

• support gender mainstreaming for all industries, particularly in transport sectors, by facilitating a long-term gender policy that includes women’s employment and capacity building;

  
  

• in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Vocational education, assess factors related to insufficient rural transport that affects girls’ attendance in secondary general and secondary vocational educational institutions;

  
  

• at the design stage of effective gender mainstreaming (eGM) or SGe projects, support the implementing and executing agencies in the Gap development process;

  
  

¹⁸⁴ adB. 2017. Uzbekistan: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC). Corridor 2 Road Investment. UZB: L2772. Completed March 2015. UZB: L2746 and L2868. t2/t3 ongoing.
¹⁸⁵ For instance, Uzbekistan Railway (Uzbekistan temir Yollary) JSC has already designed and provided gender-sensitive amenities, such as mother and child rooms, in major railway stations. adB. 2017. Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy (SPRSS). Pap-Namangan–Andijan Railway Electrification Project.
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