Manana Kochladze, Bankwatch’s regional coordinator for the Caucasus...visited several Azeri and Georgian communities along the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, an EBRD-sponsored project...BTC has supported increased prostitution and trafficking along the route of the pipeline, has brought a number of health problems to some areas, and has worsened socio-economic conditions for some communities – making especially women’s lives more difficult...[J]ob offers were fewer for women than for men and more often involved short-term, insecure contracts. They were in menial positions (cleaning, cooking) and they involved 12-15 hour work days...[W]omen reported that they simply put up with sexual harassment on the job, and in the rare cases when they did report, it was only after being fired...[T]he pipeline construction work and accumulation of male workers had increased rates of prostitution and trafficking and even of HIV and drug trade in some regions along the route...This is why...[CEE Bankwatch] put together a gender toolkit (pdf) for monitoring projects sponsored by international financial institutions and...to improve the gender practices of these organisations.