The mission of GWA is to promote women’s and men’s equitable access to and management of safe and adequate water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and environmental sustainability. GWA believes that equitable access to and control over water is a basic right for all, as well as a critical factor in promoting poverty eradication and sustainability.
GWA collaborates on Evaluation of FAO’s role and work related to Gender and Development The Gender and Water Alliance has just completed a collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on an evaluation of FAO’s role and work in Gender and Development. Because of its extensive expertise in gender and agricultural sectors and its wide member network, the GWA secretariat was asked to provide advisory services on gender equality. Furthermore GWA was asked to help identifying, and eventually contract four out of eight consultants for the evaluation team, including the team leader. For GWA it was a great opportunity to examine a large UN organization and to assess whether it has actually implemented its stated gender policy and mandate.
GWA member Bikash Subedi wins "Eco-Peace Excellence Award 2010" Bikash Subedi, GWA member in Nepal, has been awarded the “Eco-Peace Excellence Award 2010” by UNEP at the Asia Pacific Environment Forum 2010 that took place 16-19 November 2010 in Kangwon National University, Korea.
GWA member Adewole Taiwo to meet President Obama Adewole Taiwo, a GWA member in Nigeria has been selected as 1 of the 120 Young African Leaders to meet President Obama in the White house 3-5 August 2010.
Gender Assembly at World Urban Forum 5, March 2010 The 5th World Urban Forum (WUF) will take place from 22 – 26 March 2010 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
For the first time, the WUF will include a Gender Equality Action Assembly that will bring together partners to discuss progress and challenges on the implementation of the Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP). Daniela Nogueira will speak for GWA at this Assembly.
For those who cannot attend the actual Assembly, yet would like to contribute to it somehow, please join the ongoing e-debate on Women and the Environment.
GWA contributes to quilt against climate change Threading together the hopes and dreams, the Asian grassroots communities affected by climate change wished to blanket the earth not with greenhouse gas emissions but with the faith that another world is possible. (PACC)
From 28th September to 8th October, 2009, various Asian grassroots, peoples, and civil society organizations convened in Bangkok for a weeklong series of events called "People's Action on Climate Change" (PACC). This assembly presented the voices and faces of the people most affected by the serious effects of climate change-the grassroots sectors in Asia. Among the PACC events was the making of the Asian Women's Quilt on Climate Change; a giant collaborative quilt having as a theme, “ Asian People’s call and responses to climate change” on the calls of Asian grassroots communities affected by climate change.
Quilts are cultural symbols of unity, creativity and diversity. This collective quilt threaded testimonies and sew together stories of Asian grass-root communities which called for action on climate change and its impact. It hoped to contribute to the global efforts to craft strategies for the people’s engagements in the issue using traditional and new media; the handmade quilt is to be made globally accessible through a view based gallery.
Al Jazeera Video on Women and the Politics of Water - Part II, featuring interview with GWA Advisor Marcia Brewster Please click on the following link to view a 11 and half minute video on: Women and the Politics of Water - Part II
This video is in English and is the second of the 2 part Al-Jazeera Everywoman documentary on Women and Politics of Water. It features an interview with GWA Advisor - Marcia Brewster, and Biraj Swain of WaterAid India, and films Indian village women at the forefront of the popular protest against the damming of the Narmada river in India, in their campaign to regain control over this precious resource - vital to the survival of their villages.
Please be aware that downloading this video may need high speed internet connections.
GWA member in Uganda wins Award for Best Performing NGO 2009 Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT) won the Award for Best performing NGO in the Water and Sanitation sector 2008/2009 from the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda. The Mission of KWDT is to empower rural peasant women to initiate and self-manage their economic, social, and political development processes.
The GWA Network is proud of our member-partner's achievement, and would like to offer hearty congratulations to all the KWDT women on achieving this wonderful milestone in their development. We wish them a lot more progress and recognition of their hard work in the years to come.
Travelling Exhibit South Asia shown at the GEF - IW Biennial Conference in Cairns, Australia The Travelling Exhibit on Gender and Water has been a partnership project of GWA with GEF - IW Learn since 2005, and its final South Asian chapter was shown at the 5th GEF - IW Biennial Conference in Cairns, Australia from 26 - 29 October 2009.
Besides showing the Travelling Exhibit, GWA members also organized the only workshop on Gender and Water issues at this conference. This was a 90 minute session including presentations by GWA members and others on Mainstreaming Gender at the GEF; Water, Gender, and MDGs: Progress and Challenges in the Lao-PDR context; Understanding the Women and Water Relationship; Gender and Water Network in Central Asia and; Gender Mainstreaming requires Training.
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