Promoting Financial Security of Older Women in Southeast Asia (Pro-Older Women) Project

Across the Southeast Asia region, older women receive less income than older men, have fewer savings, are less likely to receive pensions or have lower levels of pension benefits than men, and are more likely to rely on family members.

© COSE Philippines

 

Across the Southeast Asia region, older women receive less income than older men, have fewer savings, are less likely to receive pensions or have lower levels of pension benefits than men, and are more likely to rely on family members. Older women’s lower levels of financial security are the result of the cumulative disadvantages that women face throughout their lives in education, employment, access to assets, income and other opportunities. Failure to change our current policy frameworks risks perpetuating generations of poor women and driving already vulnerable groups of women further to the margins.

Promoting Financial Security of Older Women in Southeast Asia or Pro-Older Women is a multi-country pilot gender and age mainstreaming project aimed at enhancing older women’s wellbeing through improving the levels of financial security of older women. Specifically, the project aims to: enhance institutional capacity of project partners in developing gender-sensitive and age-friendly policies and programs; develop collaboration of women & ageing networks; create, strengthen and maximize spaces for meaningful engagement; and broaden understanding of women of all ages and decision makers on financial security of older women both at the national and regional level. In partnership with HelpAge International (Asia Pacific Office), this two-year project, kicked off last February 2020 in two countries, the Philippines and Thailand with Coalition of Services of the Elderly (COSE) and Foundation for Older Persons Development (FOPDEV) as partner project implementers, respectively. The ILC-S also aims to catalyse gender and age mainstreaming through Pro-Older Women Project in other Southeast Asian countries soon.

 

BACK TO PROGRAMMES

Back to Top