as box shows from the asian development bank s experience women s representation in programme decision making can ensure that their needs are adequately addressed in infrastructure investments while at the same time promoting their voice and participation in the community preprogramme assessments and diagnostics should include issues related to unpaid care work such as childcare or domestic tasks to identifying entry points to address unpaid care work it could also allow for the measurement of impact on unpaid care work and contribute to strengthening the knowledge base on what works to inform future infrastructure investments very few policies and programmes currently aim to do this although innovative approaches are proving that it is possible