Multi-Year Project: August Monitoring Report
Please submit through your APEC Secretariat Program Director by Aug. 1 of each year.
Please note that this report will be used to determine your next year’s funding.
SECTION A: Project profile
Project number & title:
M SCE 03 2013A
Innovation for Women and Economic Development: Facilitating Women’s
Livelihood Development and Resilience with ICTs
Time period covered in report:
2013. 06 ~2014. 07
Committee / Working Group /
Fora:
PPWE
Project Overseer Name /
Organization / Economy:
Date submitted:
2014.08.01
Pi-Shia Huang/ Gender Equality Committee of the Executive Yuan/
Chinese Taipei
SECTION B: Project update
Briefly answer each of the questions below. Section B should be a maximum of 4-5 pages. Focus on progress
made since your last report, or since the project started.
1.
Current status of project:
 On schedule: Yes
 On budget: Yes
 On target to meet project objectives: Yes
If NO, provide details: How far is the project off schedule, budget or objectives? What corrective actions are
being taken to resolve any problems? What support is needed from your Committee or the Secretariat in
addressing these problems?
i.
According to the APEC’s identification of the multi-year project, the Year 1 project activities shoulde be
completed before December 31st, 2014. In accordance with the work plan in this project, the key activities of
Year 1 include “established a Public-Private Partnership Network (PPPN) ”, “launched a conference and the
1stworkshop and 1st PPPN meeting”, and “Identified more than three case studies”. The first two activities
have been completed and the third one is currently still under way.
ii.
The Year 1 planned budget from APEC Funds includes Director Labor (Speaker’s Honorarium and Contractor
fee) and Travel (SPEAKERS, EXPERTS, RESEARCHERS and Participants). Due to the 1st Workshop, 1st PPPN
meeting held and research work implementation, the budget items used include: contractor fee, travel fee for
6 speakers and 12 eligible economy participants.
iii.
The main objectives of this project are “promoting awareness of women’s needs and identify issues of
particular concern for women in APEC region ”, “sharing and dissemination of pertinent experiences of ICT
innovations in women’s livelihood development”, and “addressing common impediments and to promote
communications and collaborations amongst the private, public and NGO sectors”.
－ With the implementation of the four dimensions identified in the San Francisco Declaration, the first
year’s qualitative research seeks to find out what the obstacles are still hinder women’s skills and
capacity building, access market, capital, and leadership. To serve the purpose, we launched a baseline
inventory on the programs of “Using ICT tools to assist female to establish an enterprise or expand
business operation” with partner economies, such as Chile, Republic of Korea, and the Philippines.
According to the literatures and preliminary baseline survey results, we found that other than
microfinance, e-banking, and mobile money, emerging crowd funding is regarded as an alternative for
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women access to capital. In addition, when training women from remote areas or training disadvantaged
groups, the participation of social welfare institutions might be a good collaborative approach.
－ In the experience sharing, in addition to inviting the economy representations to share their experiences
in the 1st workshop, Women’s National Service (SERNAM) program coordinator was invited to share her
experience with “ICT and Women Entrepreneurship” in the 1st e-newsletter issue. In the second issue of
the newsletter, the founder of Sokoshop in Kenya, an innovation shopping platform for women, was
interviewed. Through innovation ICT technology, the restrictions of the network infrastructure were
overcome, thereby enabling women in rural areas to devise solutions in line with the global markets.
－ We expended many efforts on engaging the collaborations amongst the private, public and NGO sectors.
Not only established the Public-Private Partnership Network (PPPN), but also put focus on the programs’
needs and mechanisms in case study that emphasizing on how the collaboration can help women’s
empowerment. Through the case study in the project, we found some impressive models between
government and NGOs. Depth analysis in the research reports will be delivered.
2.
Continuing relevance: Does the project remain a high priority for both the involved fora and the broader APEC
agenda? How is this relevance verified? If NO, what are the reasons for reduced relevance and/or priority and
should the scope of the project be amended?
The associated task force is PPWE, and the other involved working group is SMEWG. The project will still maintain
priority in PPWE.
PPWE and SMEWG called on the 1st Joint Ministerial Meeting on Small and Medium Enterprises and Women in
2013. The joint statement released stresses: “It is important to bring together the expertise of both the APEC Small
and Medium Enterprise Working Group (SMEWG) and the Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy (PPWE)
to provide a coordinated approach to address common challenges faced by women in SMEs”.
In that Joint Ministerial Statement “Empowering Women and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)”. The
Minister expressed, “We welcomed collaboration between the Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy and
the SME Working Group to take forward this agenda and initiate projects and concrete actions”. In addition,
according to “FUNDING CRITERIA FOR ALL APEC-FUNDED PROJECTS IN 2014”, “Women and Economy”, the funding
ranking criteria will continue to be maintained at second order in rank.
This project is the only multi-year project of PPWE approved by BMC. A theme of this MYP, “empower women
through ICTs” directly echoes the “innovation and technology” in the five prioritized themes of PPWE. In the first
year of the project, the case study research echoes closely 2011 San Francisco Declaration, which focuses on how
member economies use ICT innovations to enhance women’s capacities of doing business, empower women’s
ability on “access to capital”, “access to market”, “skills and capacity building”, and “women’s leadership”。
This project will more closely facilitate teamwork amongst PPWE, SMEWG, and ABAC Women’s Forum through：
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3.
In the 1st Workshop “Innovation and ICT for Women Business” of the project last year, SMEWG Chair Dr.
Wimonkan was invited to be the opening guest, thus indicating SMEWG’s support for the project. After
finalizing the case study report “Report Title”, through relevant forum circulations, the link with SMEWG
will be strengthened, thereby wakening SMEWG’s emphasis for women enterprises’ adoption of ICT issues.
The project will organize a High Level meeting in 2015, and we plan to invite Chairpersons of SMEWG and
TELWG as an honorable guest in that meeting.
ABAC Women’s Forum is another stakeholder of this project who continues to support this project through
substantial links, such as assigning personnel to be the keynote speaker for the conference last year. A new
platform, “Asia Pacific Open Innovation Platform, AP-OIP”, set up by ABAC will officially go on line this year.
ABAC Women’s Forum representatives will also introduce this platform at the 2 nd PPPN meeting held in
October 2014 where women entrepreneurs and other stakeholders will be invited to join the platform and
continue to seek collaboration opportunities.
Implementation: Describe progress and any deviations against the project’s work plan. How have stakeholders
and other fora been engaged during the implementation stage?
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Progress：
According to the APEC’s identification of the multi-year project, the Year 1 project activities should be completed
before December 31st, 2014. In accordance with the work plan in this project, the first two key activities
“established a Public-Private Partnership Network(PPPN) ”, “launched a conference and the 1stworkshop and 1st
PPPN meeting” have been completed as scheduled, while “Identified more than three case studies” is currently still
under way.
Following the project approval, we actively organized the Public-Private Partnership Network (PPPN). The members
include government officials, women entrepreneurs, ICT-related service providers, NGOs, Experts and scholars.
Through the conference, workshop, and PPPN meeting held, APEC and non-APEC stakeholders were invited to join
to share experiences of existing programs that facilitate education on ICT applications and business development
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Events：
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The 1st Workshop and PPPN meeting was held on June 28-29, 2013 in Taipei. More than one
hundred delegates from 12 APEC member economies’ public and private sectors was
attended. Experts and representatives from many international organizations and economies
were invited to discuss the importance of ICT innovations on women’s livelihood development.
After enthusiastic deliberations, the participants have reached the research themes and
conference recommendations.
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The Cross-Economy Work-meeting was held on March 7-8, 2014 in Taipei. Setting case study
criteria and interview questionnaires will be the point of this meeting. Consultants, experts and
ICT-related service providers reached some consensus including the time schedule of following
case study, the framework of study report, selecting criteria and the structure of interview
questionnaire, as well as the draft agenda and theme of 2nd workshop.
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The 2nd Workshop and PPPN meeting are preparing and will be launched on 28-29 October 2014.
This event will be hold with PPWE the Philippines and endorsed by ABAC Women’s Forum.
Research activities：To serve this project’s purpose, a series of research activities will be implemented to
document best practices and to identify impediments and opportunities for women entrepreneurs by
cooperating with three APEC member economies (Chile, Republic of Korea, and the Philippines).
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The first stage, scheduled to take place from November 2013 to February 2014, is to carry out a
baseline survey of existing initiatives/programs in APEC member economies. Our targeted
programs are those in which ICTs- mobile phones and computers – are employed as tools in
order to enable women entrepreneurs to gain access to markets, business networks, resources,
and training.
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The second stage of the work is to select several programs for which interviews with stakeholders
will be implemented, followed by in-depth analysis. Consultants will be invited to design the
questionnaire, together with project coordinator in Chinese Taipei, in order to ensure the
consistency of the results across different studies member economies. The period of
implementation will be between Mar 2014 and July 2014.
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After the previous works, a research output “Report Title” will be delivered by research teams
from Chinese Taipei and consultants from partner economies (Chile, Republic of Korea, and the
Philippines). This report will includes identification of opportunities for innovation in training
programs; policy recommendations to address barriers; information of best practices.
Deviation：
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The lack of activity among PPPN and the delay of the announcement of baseline survey, caused a
discourage result of program survey from non-partner economies. The information gathering is unideal
even though we extended the deadline of programs submission. This deviation may be amended through
the 2nd PPPN meeting (please see the description in the Q4).
Another deviation appears on the case study schedule. In-depth interview is a time-consuming research
method; moreover, due to the vast land of Chile, the time spent on face-to-face interviews exceeds
expectations, resulting in an unexpected delay of our data compilation and analysis. Fortunately, owing to
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our misunderstanding of the duration of first phase, we implement our case study earlier than the work
schedule. These research studies will be completed before the end of this year.
Stakeholders：
We identify our stakeholders include the government officials, women entrepreneurs, ICT-related service providers,
NGOs, experts and scholars.
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The participants of 1st workshop and PPPN meetings consist of the stakeholders, from each economy and
are recommended through circulation within PPWE.
Through the PPPN members and PPWE forum’s feedbacks and comments that concluded the 1st
conference, we solicited opinions of eight economies (United States, Mexico, Thailand, The Philippines,
Indonesia, Chile, Republic of Korea, and Australia) regarding their willingness to carry out follow-up
research on the multi-year plan. Interested PPPN members or PPWE portals will appoint research
representatives.
This project collaborated with local consultant in each partner economy (Chile, Republic of Korea and the
Philippines) to carry out the research activities specified above。Consultants from each partner economy
include government sector representatives, female entrepreneurs, and scholars. The opinions from all
sides were extensively collected to ensure the quality of research results.
In the case study, the consultants of the various countries contacted the selected plan organizer or
execution unit representatives, as well as the plan participants for face-to-face interviews. During the indepth interview, the interviewees involved as a part of this implementation stage, sharing their experience
and descripting their needs and barriers on the business growth. These interviewees may be the programs’
participants or organizers such as women entrepreneurs, officer or director from government sectors and
NGOs. The general information of interviewees will description in the case study report “Report title”.
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4.
For the upcoming 2nd workshop and PPPN meeting, in addition to government officials, experts, and NGOs,
the co-host, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Philippines, recommended female entrepreneur
representatives (mainly from ICT-related service companies) will be invited to join in order to increase
business matching opportunities among them.
Challenges: If not covered in Q1, describe any problems, which have arisen (or might arise) and how you
overcame them / aim to overcome them. How might these change the project schedule or budget? How might
your fora, Committee or the Secretariat help?
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The PPPN setup played a major role at the beginning of the project implementation. Through the PPPN
meeting held, the research theme and case study approach adopted for the project were finalized.
However, the PPPN failed to contribute as expected in subsequent project inventory phases, which
indirectly resulted in undesirability for inventory work to be in touch with every APEC economy. Thus, the
baseline survey is considered incomplete.
The undesirable program survey is expected to be improved through the upcoming 2nd workshop in
October. We will invite each member economy to recommend the participant to join this conference, and
would like to expect them having a presentation in the session of Economy Report. In this session, we look
for their proposal on the overview or the best practice of projects such as ICT assistance for women’s
development of economies and entrepreneurship, which will help us understand the development of other
economies in the APEC region.
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We and PPWE the Philippines will co-host the 2nd workshop and PPPN meeting with sponsoring by ABAC
Women’s Forum on this October, which aims to facilitate the sharing of case studies on how partner
economies of our MYP and other organizations/companies use ICT innovations to develop women’s
possible business opportunities.
However, the money available for travel (speakers and participants) may be over the Year 1 budget. To
overcome this, we would like to apply the rest part of Year 1 APEC-fund budget to supports limited number
of participants from eligible economy. Further, we will support parts of the travel fee for opening guest and
some keynote speakers with co-funding from PPWE Chinese Taipei.
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Negotiations with the Secretariat are currently undergoing, with hopes of finding a way to successfully hold
the activities. In addition, an early funding form Project Year2 budget will be much appreciated.
5.
Objectives and outputs: How do the results of the project so far (if any) compare with its expected results? Are
outputs being delivered on time and of sufficient quality? Are the right stakeholders or participants being
engaged? (You may refer to section C, as applicable.)
The Year 1 results of this project are classified into two parts: events and research. Some of the outputs may not
being produced on time, but all of them are delivered with sufficient quality and on expectation. (Please see the
deviation and challenge in SECTION B to see the details of late submission.)
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To ensure research quality, the requirements for the background of consultants engaged in research are
listed below: with a master’s or doctoral degree in Development Studies, Economics or other related fields;
3-5 years of relevant professional experience in development studies or microeconomic analysis and
familiar with both qualitative and quantitative research approaches; excellent oral and verbal
communication skills in English; suitability to undertake the responsibilities mentioned above at the
required level. Our consultants from each economy all meet the requirements. They have assisted us in
generating research reports in line with the quality requirements.
We conducted a survey on the 1st workshop participants’ satisfaction towards the overall conference and
keynote sessions: general speaking, up to 97% respondents were satisfied with the conference’s overall
contents and arrangements.
The outputs from events includes a set of meeting material with conference’s collective documents,
recommendation of 1st workshop, a summary report of 1st PPPN meeting, a briefing of 1st conference, a handbook
of work-meeting and an agenda of coming conference. And the outputs based on research include a framework of
baseline survey, summary reports from four economies, a set of ranking criteria for case study selection, a set of
interview questionnaires, a format of case study analysis and more than three identified cases.
The stakeholders and participants of Project’s events and research are in line with our expectations. Please see the
description in SECTION C.
6.
Monitoring and evaluation: Describe any monitoring and evaluation activities undertaken or started during the
previous year. How was the information collected? Describe any results or findings, if not covered in Q5. What
are some of the key lessons learned during implementation?
For 1st Workshop and PPPN meeting, a post-conference satisfaction questionnaire was taken with the hope of
obtaining relevant opinions and information from the guests and participants who attended to serve as a reference
for future planning of relevant activities. Out of the 110 questionnaire survey copies distributed on the day of the
conference, 34 valid questionnaires were received, a recovery rate of 31%. The relevant statistics show that 97% of
respondents expressed satisfaction towards the overall conference.
The outputs from 1st Workshop and PPPN meeting, recommendations and summary report, were circulated among
PPPN and economy delegates. They agreed the theme and the work-plan of phase 1 research activities, suggested
that a landscape survey in APEC region is first priority.
The E-Newsletters publishes twice a year to disseminate outcomes and invite the comments or feedback from
PPWE and PPPN. Both process and outcomes employed as project evaluation through E-Newsletter and annual
Workshops/meetings. Furthermore, the major deliverable output “Report Title” will be submitted to PPWE and
related fora as an evaluation activity for Year 1 research outcome.
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SECTION C: Participant and output information
1.
Participant information: Please provide details, where applicable, of participants in any events or studies carried
out over the past year. Insert rows or tables as needed.
1st Workshop and PPPN meeting (2013.06.28-29)
Event :
Economy
# male
# female Details
Participants and Speakers recommended by each economy
Delegate from Australia, Government official, representative of
Australian Office Taipei.
Australia
1
0
Attended PPPN meeting and introduced “Women in Australia”,
“Women in ICT” and “the current efforts for government initiatives
on women empowerment through the economy report”.
Delegates from Chile, both of them are government officials from
the National Service of Women in Chile.
Chile
Indonesia
1
0
1
2
They attended the PPPN meeting and introduced the gender gap
between education and the workforce, the challenge of women
economic participation, and Chile’s public policy of ICT through the
economy report.
The delegates from the co-host economy, Indonesia, included an
opening speaker for the conference and a guest speaker for the
workshop. The government official represents the Ministry of
Communication and Information Technology and the woman
entrepreneur is the CEO of an ICT-related company.
They attended the PPPN meeting and introduced the overview and
current status of ICT in Indonesia and the economic growth and the
empowerment of women through ICT tools through the economy
report.
One of the delegates from Japan is a government official, a
counselor for gender equality promotion in the Cabinet Office, and
the other one is representing ABAC Japan.
Japan
1
1
They attended the PPPN meeting and introduced an example of a
female-owned business by using ICT, the framework of promoting
work-life balance and how tele-work and IT strategy to help female
labor participation in Japan through the economy report.
Delegate from the Republic of Korea is a government official, a
representative of the Korean Mission in Taipei.
Republic of Korea
Peru
The Philippines
0
0
0
1
2
3
Attended the PPPN meeting, and presented the challenge in Korea
such as the aging population problem through the economy report,
low fertility rate and the human resource gap between education
and economic participation. She concludes that women are the key
to Korea’s global competitiveness and introduced the creative
economy will depend on promising science and ICT fields for women
resources.
Both of the delegates from Peru worked in Women and Society
Center. They introduced the best practices in Peru that shared
women’s sustainable livelihood development through ICT in
enhancing resilience at the workshop, and presented the ICT current
situation and digital divide for women in Peru through the economy
report.
One of the delegates from the Philippines is a government official
and the other two are members of the women business council in
Philippines (private sector).
They shared the best practices in the Workshop section and
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presented the ICT trends and a small enterprises technology
program in the Philippines in the economy report. They actively
participated in the MYP future research related discussions at the
PPPN meeting and volunteered to assist case studies that
participated in the action research.
Singapore
0
1
The delegate was invited as a guest speaker in the workshop to
share the aspects of ICT capacity building for female SMMEs in
Singapore. She has led the national survey to explore SMEs and Ebusiness in Singapore. She has also shared her views and has
proposed key suggestions to be noted in future research at the PPPN
meeting.
The government officials, women entrepreneurs, ICT-related service
providers, NGOs, experts and scholars from Chinese Taipei were all
invited to join the first day’s conference as opening speaker, guest
speaker, chair of PPPN meeting and giving the closing remarks for
the conference.
Chinese Taipei
Thailand
25
0
68
2
Generally speaking, most participants were women entrepreneurs,
NGOs, and government sector representatives. Most of the women
entrepreneurs came from Chinese Taipei’s female entrepreneurial
business networks such as the Flying-geese and BPW Taiwan ; the
NGOs include the World Vision, Institute for Information Industry,
Chunghwa Telecom Foundation and a number of women
associations in Chinese Taipei; The government sector
representatives mainly came from the Small and Medium Enterprise
Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Labor,
Gender Equality Committee, Commission of Gender Equality, etc.
Both of the delegates from Thailand were government officials and
each separately represented the Ministry of Social Development and
Human Security and the Ministry of Information and Communication
Technology.
At the workshop and PPPN meeting, they shared their current
research on ASEAN-related issues and Thailand’s ICT profiles and
government projects on improving women in ICT.
The United States
0
2
The Senior Advisor for Women and Technology of Department of
State was invited as a Keynote speaker and moderator at the day 1
conference and the Chair of the 1st PPPN meeting in day 2. Her
keynote speech’s theme was “the barriers and opportunities for
women accessing ICTs” received great feedback from the
participants.
Another representative who was also a government official
constantly expressed support and offered suggestions for the multiyear project during the PPPN meeting and meeting period.
Viet Nam
Other Fora
0
# male
2
# female
SMEWG
0
2
The representative from Vietnam came from the Center for Women
and Development. She had attended the ADOC (APEC Digital
Opportunity Center, endorsed by SMEWG) implementation project
in Vietnam. During the workshop, she shared the status to use ICT by
rural women and the solution to encourage rural women to apply
ICT tools in life.
Details
Owing to SMEWG’s support for the multi-year project, SMEWG Chair
Dr. Wimonkan was invited to be the opening speaker and co-chair of
day 2’s meeting. In her opening address, she stated the growing
importance of women in economic development and
entrepreneurship and said SMEWG should attach more importance
to women’s role as participants in SME.
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ABAC
0
Cooperation
Delegates
ICT-related service
providers
International
Organizations
BPW
GSMA
ITC
# male
0
# male
0
1
0
1
# female
2
# female
Chile
Republic of Korea
Details
Other than the private sector representatives recommended by the
economies, the director of Facebook and Intel was invited as a
member of the Public-Private partnership network (PPPN) in order
to provide industrial recommendations and assistance.
Details
1
The president of BPW (International Federation of Business and
Professional Women) was invited as a keynote speaker to share the
experiences and aspects of the policy of BPW on innovations for
women in economic development. In her speech, she introduced the
BPW business incubator, the global platform from women vendors
and the training courses supported by BPW. In the end, she
welcomed female entrepreneurs to join the BPW and grow their
business together.
0
The head of research from GSMA Mobil for Development
Intelligence was invited as a keynote speaker to illustrate the
progress and outcomes from GSMA Women program. The program
focused on the women and mobile financial services in emerging
markets and launched a series of studies to gain insights on women’s
financial management activities and needs. He identified four
priorities for women’s financial services and showed the future
opportunities for providers to increase women’s adoption of mobile
financial services.
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The Women and Trade Programme Manager from ITC (International
Trade Centre) were invited to give a keynote speech on the current
status of the ITU program on promoting women in global trade. The
ITC cooperated with BPW to establish the “Global Platform for
Action on Sourcing from Women Vendors” since 2010. This activity
aims to increase the amount of corporate, government and
institutional procurement secured by women vendors for the
ultimate purpose of bringing economic benefit to women and their
communities.
Event:
Economy
The ABAC Women’s Forum representative was invited to be the
keynote speaker, speaking on how mobile can provide assistance
and the future development direction in terms of women’s capacity
building.
Cross-Economy Work-meeting (2014.03.07-08)
# male
0
0
# female
Details
2
The consultant from Chile and a member of PPPN were invited to
join this work meeting to discuss the next step in an in-depth
interview and the framework of case studies. The consultant is a
professor whose research area covers gender and entrepreneurship.
The member of PPPN is the government official and has experiences
on empowering women entrepreneurs through ICTs.
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The consultant from the Republic of Korea was invited to join this
work meeting to discuss the next step in an in-depth interview and
the framework of case studies. The consultant has extensive
experience on gender and digital economy. She is also a member of
the Advisory Committee of APWINC (Asia Pacific Women’s
Information Network Center), and had carried out the APEC project
“APEC Initiative for Women’s Participation in Digital Economy” from
2005 for five years.
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The Philippines
0
2
The consultant from the Philippines and a government official
representing the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Philippines, were
invited to join this work meeting to discuss the next step in an indepth interview, the framework of case studies and the possibility to
co-host the 2nd workshop in Taipei this year.
The consultant from the Philippines was not only the Vice President
of the Women’s Business Council Philippines but also the President
of a consulting company. Further, to carry out the series of studies in
this project, a research team from the Center of Business Research
and Development (CBRD) has been cooperating with our consultant.
The consultant, Project PO, researcher of this project, member of
PPWE Chinese Taipei and delegate from the Institute for Information
Industry attended this meeting to discuss the next step in an indepth interview and the framework of case studies.
Chinese Taipei
1
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The consultant is a university professor and a research fellow of
Academia Sinica in Chinese Taipei. The research area includes
gender and agricultural economics. The researchers of the project
include two master degree researchers who majored in gender
research and cooperative economics. The members of the PPWE
Chinese Taipei include women’s group representatives and
government officials.
The research team prepared a set of meeting materials for this
meeting, which consists of draft selection criteria, two systems of
draft questionnaire and the summary report template that
summarizes the objectives and key findings from the Baseline
Survey.
Activity:
Economy
Australia
Chile
# male
Baseline survey and in-depth interview in APEC Region (Nov. 2013 – Jul. 2014)
# female Details
0
Unsure
2
More
than 6
Baseline survey：One survey program from Australia and 5 survey
programs from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) were submitted
separately through a CEO of NGOs and a consultant from ADB.
Baseline survey: The consultant and government official from Chile
were exactly the two people that joined the work meeting in March
and assisted in the Chile baseline survey conducted in this project.
In-depth interview: During the case interview, the researcher
interviewed the case organizers and executive unit representatives, as
well as four project participants. These participants are all female and
most of them were women vendors or hand-made goods artists.
Baseline survey: The project consultant assisted in undertaking the
baseline survey in Korea.
Republic of Korea
More
than 1
More
than 8
In-depth interview: During the case interview, the researcher
interviewed the organizers and executive unit representatives of two
selected projects, as well as at least 4-7 project participants. The
organization representatives may have come from government units
or NTO, such as Women’s Enterprise Supporting Center (WESC) ；the
project participants were mainly women entrepreneurs or female
senior managers from the private sector.
Baseline survey: The project consultant and the research team of
CBRD jointly carried out the baseline survey in the Philippines.
The Philippines
More
than 2
More
than 10
In-depth interview: The researcher interviewed 10 sponsors and
executive unit representatives of selected projects, as well as
participants of different projects. The organization representatives
include a trainer of the course, a head of the PTTC (Philippine Trade
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Training Center) training program and the government officials who
have global and national responsibilities in effecting the digital literacy
initiatives of the Philippine government. The project participants were
mostly women entrepreneurs or female senior managers who were
working from the private sector.
Baseline survey: The project consultant and the researcher from the
Foundation for Women Rights’ Promotion and Development jointly
carried out the project baseline survey in Chinese Taipei.
Chinese Taipei
More
than 5
More
than 28
In-depth interview: The researcher interviewed 11 project organizers
and executive unit representatives of selected projects, as well as 18
project participants of different projects. These organizations include
the Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Social Affairs
Bureau of local government, and NGOs. The project participants
include 18 female micro-enterprise entrepreneurs from different
industries and in different stages of entrepreneurship from the
northern, central and southern parts of Chinese Taipei. Some of these
interviewees are indigenes, new inhabitant and single mother.
Comment on the composition of the participants: in terms of economies, fora, gender mix, background, skillsets, etc. Do you feel the right people are participating and in the right ways?
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At the 1st workshop and PPPN meeting, more than 100 participants from 12 APEC economies (Australia,
Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Peru, The Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, The
United States and Viet Nam), APEC fora (SMEWG, ABAC), NGOs, private sectors, and international
organizations). In terms of characteristics of participants, the female participants significantly
outnumbered the male participants. The appointed economy representatives that participated were
mostly government officials who came from economy/industry, women/gender, technology, and other
related government sectors; the non-economy representatives were mostly female entrepreneurs and
women group representatives from Chinese Taipei.
More than half of the APEC members jointly attended the meeting. Unfortunately, several co-sponsoring
economies of this project did not appoint participants.
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In Cross-economy Work-meetings and research activities, the main executing economies were Chile,
Republic of Korea, The Philippines, and Chinese Taipei. As the case study focused on the female project
participants, the women comprised more than half off all the participants.
The participating economies covered the developed and developing regions, which was a good starting
point for comparing project research results and providing policy recommendations to APEC. In the
research, the way ICT helps women engaged in economic development was proposed, taking into account
varied degrees of economic development. This enabled APEC members to adopt suggestions that they find
most suitable.
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As mentioned in SECTION B, we put forth professional background screening criteria for project execution
consultants. Therefore, I believe that these consultants are quite suitable candidates for executing project
research. At the same time, we organized additional work meetings to facilitate communications between
the PO and consultants through letters and opportunities for face-to-face talks, thereby greatly enhancing
research efficiency and depth.
We would like to thank all the project participants for their dedicated efforts and contributions. They have
ensured the smooth conduct of the project activities and executions, and have enriched research results in
Year 1.
Outputs: Please provide details, where applicable, on any outputs from the past year (e.g. # workshops,
publications, websites, CD sets, etc.). Change headings or insert rows as needed.
Type of output
Events
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# actual
Details
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Phase 1：From Jun. 2013 – Dec. 2014
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Workshop
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PPPN meeting
Cross-Economy
Work meeting
Publications
Literature review
Agenda of conference
A set of meeting
material
E-Newsletter
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1st workshop and PPPN meeting was held on June 28-29,
2013 in Taipei. The conference was attended by more than
110 delegates from 12 APEC member economies’ public and
private sectors. Experts and representatives from many
international organizations and economies were invited to
discuss the importance of ICT innovations on women’s
livelihood development. After enthusiastic deliberations, the
participants have reached some key findings and
recommendations. (For the recommendations, please refer
to SECTION E.)
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We are pleased to hold the 2nd workshop and PPPN
meeting：“Utilizing ICTs to Empower Women Entrepreneurs”
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with PPWE the Philippines at NTUH International Convention
Center (Taipei, Chinese Taipei) on 28-29th October, 2014.
The program in a variety of these two events includes three
sections: Section 1- Keynote Speeches in response to the five
priority pillars of PPWE, Section 2 - Case Studies and
Discussions to illustrate study results of the multi-year
project and Section 3 - public-private partnership network
(PPPN) meeting to develop a new possible business
opportunity. Furthermore, we will cooperate with the
Philippine female entrepreneurs to set up a joint female
enterprises fair on 28 October to promote the regional
economy development of both economies.
In this March, we held a small work-meeting in Taipei, inviting
professionals from industrial, academic and government circles
under the 4 economies to provide suggestions for the next phase of
the case study, and also to build a consensus on survey and
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research directions.
The case interview and analysis of the in-depth plan is being
conducted, and we expect to submit the case research reports of
the total four economies at the end of the first year on the Project
(July 2014).
Phase 1：From Jun. 2013 – Dec. 2014
The literature review covers materials related to the following
themes: “Womenomics”, “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs by
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the enhancement of ICT” and “Four dimensions of the San
Francisco Declaration“. The literature reviews and research results
will be incorporated in the “Report Title”.
Five agenda items were produced which comprised the agenda of
1st workshop and PPPN meeting, cross-economy work meeting and
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2nd workshop and PPPN meeting. The main event information was
listed on all the agendas, such as time, venue, theme, participants
and meeting process.
The meeting-related documents were compiled into a meeting
manual shared with all the meeting participants for their reference.
－ Program Guide Book of 2013 APEC Conference “Innovation and
ICT for Women Business” ： Including keynote speeches,
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workshop briefings and economy reports.
－ Handbook of Cross-Economy Work-meeting ： Including
summary report template, draft questionnaires, procedure of
case study and the feedback from the Philippines.
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The first issue was published in December 2013 1.
http://www.globalgender.org/en-global/epaper/detail/7
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Conference report
and
Recommendation
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A set of ranking criteria
for
case study selection
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Baseline survey
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Summary report of
baseline survey
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Online database for
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The first issue includes four large and interesting sections:
“Briefing,” has a summary of the recent project activities, while the
“APEC Aspect” section provides articles from the APEC member
economies. “Focus” offers relevant information on how women
entrepreneurs can be empowered via the ICTs. And finally, “Case
Study” shares the progress and results of our case studies for this
current project.
The second issue was published in July 2014. Like the previous
issue, this issue is comprised of four themes. The “Briefing”
presents the progress of our project and the “Case Study” provides
a quick glance at a sub-set of performance and an overview of the
baseline survey in Chinese Taipei.
In second issue, “Focus”, we interviewed the founder of a shopping
platform for women in Kenya. Miss Gwen was interviewed,
describing how she assisted women in rural areas to devise
solutions in line with the global markets through innovation ICT
technology and how they received support or sponsorship from
Microsoft, ITU, Kiva, and other organizations. She was invited to
share her experiences with ICT’s assistance in women’s livelihood
development. Finally, the “Editor’s pick-up” excerpts Asia
Development Bank’s report of assistance offered to women from
central and western Asia to help them start and manage their
business.
The meeting focus and conclusions of the 1st PPPN meeting and the
policy recommendations in the 1st conference were compiled into
the 1st conference report. The document was circulated in PPWE
and PPPN to let all PPWE members to share the meeting’s
outcomes.
Four criteria for case study selection were decided in the work
meeting. These criteria took into consideration PPWE’s priorities
the preliminary, company department collaboration and the ratio
of women that benefited from these criteria.
These criteria are：Program objectives involving at least 2 of the 4
dimensions identified in the San Francisco Declaration; Programs
implemented by public and/or private sector. (Preferably both);
Programs attracting more than 50% women participants; Programs
contributing to start or strengthen women’s economic
empowerment by deploying ICT-based tools.
Before the case study, we launched a baseline survey in APEC
member economies. Through this survey, we tend to obtain a
baseline landscape of the progress made in the APEC region and
have an overview of past and/or ongoing projects that tackle ICTenabled tools to empower women entrepreneurs.
The baseline inventory of the programs was carried out from Nov.
2013 to Feb. 2014. We have collected more than 31 programs from
5 economies and one international organization and came up with
some interesting findings among this inventory. The inventory
project outcome has been submitted to the APEC secretariat.
The stakeholders can search for detailed information from the
survey projects free of charge. The data was compiled in the online
database to be shared with all the stakeholders, with hopes of
contributing to relevant future research and promotion of issues.
Chile, Republic of Korea, the Philippines and Chinese Taipei each
proposed a summary report of the baseline survey results. Chinese
Taipei published the excerpts in the 2nd issue of the e-newsletter,
while the three remaining copies were put up on the website. The
inventory results were published for open access in the online
database, please refer to SECTION E for the website.
In order to enable more non-PPWE or non-APEC economy research
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Baseline survey
Questionnaire
of
in-depth interview
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The explanation of
Case selection
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“Report title”
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units or other stakeholders to understand and benefit from the
project research results, a free database was created to publish
project research results on the Internet for public access.
A set of questionnaires with open-ended questions was designed
for subsequent qualitative analysis research. The questionnaire
divides the respondents into organizer and participants. The main
focus includes four items and company department collaboration
models in San Francisco. In order to facilitate future research
analysis, all the case studies were interviewed using the same
questionnaire. The researcher of the Foundation for Women’s
Rights Promotion and Development also separately provides
researcher’s guidelines for interviewers as a reference for
implementation interviews.
Echoing the previously set criteria for case study selection,
consultants were asked to give details on the case study
selection and case study background. The case study consists of
1 case from Chile, 2 from Korea, 2 from the Philippines and 3
from Chinese Taipei.
The above case studies and qualitative analyses were carried out
from May to July, 2014. The research team of this project is
currently compiling relevant results to propose the final research
report. In addition to the descriptions of the research process and
key findings, the report content also covers the response policy
recommendations to be used by PPWE, APEC and other related
forums.
SECTION D: Budget
Attach the updated MYP budget template with a breakdown of APEC-provided budget to date, including:
 Actual expenditures vs. planned costs (using most recently approved budget figures)
 Variance notes: An explanation of any budget line under- or over-spent by 20% or more.
 Proposed budget for the coming year: for approval by APEC
For your reference, attached excel file is our description including actual expenditures and proposed budget.
SECTION E: Appendices or additions
You have the option of attaching any of the following. This information will help us better understand and support
your project, support overseers of similar projects and plan for future projects.
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Lists of the project’s participants, experts or consultants, with job titles and contact info
－ Please see Appendix 1 in the attached file
Event agendas
－ Please see Appendix 2 in the attached file
Links to any relevant websites or online material (e.g., reports, resources created)
－ Information of Multi-year Project：http://www.globalgender.org/en-global/program/index/2
－ E-newsletter：http://www.globalgender.org/upload/media/program/APEC_MYP/Vol%201.%20Enewsletter_%20Global%20Gender.pdf
－ Online database：http://www.globalgender.org/en-global/database/index
Results of participant feedback or other project evaluation (raw and/or analyzed)
－ 2013 Workshop Satisfaction Survey. (Please see Appendix 3 in the attached file)
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We took consultants and experts’ comments into our research activities in many ways. For example, a
baseline survey was initiated as a result of the agreement of 1 st PPPN meeting. Another example is that
we adjusted our interview questionnaires to cover the various issue in developing and developed
economies in the cross-economy work meeting.
Any other relevant information or resources that would help us learn more about your project.
－ The recommendation of 1st workshop and PPPN meeting is opened to public on the：(website)
－ A literature review which focuses on the topics of four priority preliminary of PPWE is collated in
Appendix 4.
－ The baseline survey form and summary reports for each partner economy (Chile, Republic of Korea,
the Philippines and Chinese Taipei) are opened to public in the online database.
http://www.globalgender.org/en-global/database/index
－ The in-depth interview questionnaires and guideline for interviewers are listed in Appendix 5.
－ A Work plan for Year 2 events and activities is collated in Appendix 6.
FOR APEC SECRETARIAT USE ONLY APEC comments: Is the project management effective? How could it be improved?
Are APEC guidelines being followed? Is the project still relevant to APEC and fora priorities?
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