Publications

South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe rank 88, 129 and 107 respectively in the global gender related development index. This generally reflects the low status given to gender with respect to access, control and ownership of economic resources and decision-making positions. Therefore, more work has to be done to ensure that gender imbalances among men and women, rich and poor are addressed adequately

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The GWA Advocacy Manual For Gender and Water Ambassadors includes Guidelines on lobbying, speeches and conferences, a Training Module and Case Studies.

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Paper prepared for the gender session at the 3rd Arab Water Regional Conference

Ibrahim_final.pdf  (52.9 kB)

This comic book has been jointly developed by the Pacific Energy and Gender Network (PEG) and the WASH programme of the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). The aim of the booklet is to create awareness on water, energy, and gender issues among primary and lower secondary school students, communities, and community leaders around the world.

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A Gender Tale of Water and Energy

This paper presents a gender perspective on flood protection. The idea behind presenting a special paper is to highlight the particular issues that women face with respect to floods not only in Mozambique but the world over and present the gender perspective for effective flood protection and mitigation measures.

At the end of the article the conclusions and recommendations of a session with respect to flood mitigation in Mozambique are given.

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In this publication the extent to which women have benefited from increased water access. is examined. It is argued that while gender equality is crucial for the sustainability of water programmes, its advancement through water programmes has been limited. The author calls for more impact studies and suggests the use of empowering participatory approaches.

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GWA Executive Director Ms. Joke Muylwijk participated in the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on “Gender-disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation”, in New York, USA, on 2-3-December 2008. The meeting was jointly convened by UNW-DPC and UNDESA . The more than 20 experts attending the meeting represented national ministries and other institutions from Chile, Sri Lanka, India, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Mexico and Suriname, and several international organizations and institutions including UNDESA, UNICEF (JMP), the World Bank (WSP), UNIFEM, ODI, the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), WaterAid, Pennsylvania State University, IRC, UNDP, Women for Water Partnership (WfW), Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and UNW-DPC.

The meeting had several main goals, namely to take stock of gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation at global and regional levels, to identify obstacles to gender-disaggregated data capacity and collection and to identify data needs and priorities. Finally, recommendations were made on policies, practices and priorities to improve the state of gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation.

Please find below the recommendations and the final report of this meeting in a pdf (save this file on your computer to open it)

EGM_report.pdf  (868.5 kB)

The fact sheet was written by GWA member Roberta Hawkins and explores issues of how women and men in Mongolia relate differently to water collection, use and management. The findings are based on two months of field work undertaken in the Fall of 2006.

Main findings include:

• Women and men, boys and girls are all involved in water collection (contrary to international studies which found that only women and girls collect water)
• Men and boys are more involved in water collection as technological requirement increases (ie. water is collected by vehicle or animal)
• Men and women in the rural communities participating in this study prioritized similar water uses, irrelevant of whether or not women or men completed the tasks
• Women are underrepresented in regional water management schemes despite their control over household water management

Gender and Water in Mongolia Fact Sheet - ENGLISH.pdf  (6.0 MB)

GWA_CCfolderJuni09.pdf  (1.0 MB)

This evidence report chronicles mutliple positive impacts of taking women's needs and preferences into account in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene projects. Numerous examples and experiences from different parts of the world have been collected and refered to.

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