This document was prepared by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the World Bank to provide an overview of gender issues in Mongolia and to assist all stakeholders involved in poverty reduction to identify how the gender dimension of poverty can be incorporated into development assistance planning. This paper is one of a collaborative series for Asia that includes Cambodia and the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos to provide information on the status of women in ADB’s and the World Bank’s developing member countries to assist staff in country strategy and program formulation, project design, and implementation. It is hoped the report will also be useful to government and nongovernmental organizations and to individuals working in the field of gender and development.