Publications

A publication of the Ministyr of Water Resources, Women's Affairs Department of Ethiopia.

Published Januari 2001, Addis Abeba.

Disclaimer: The views in this publication are not necessarily that of the Gender and Water Alliance

Gender Mainstreaming Guideline and Checklists 2001 .doc  (1,001 kB)

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

Joke_final.pdf  (54 kB)

Disasters are extremely gendered events in terms of both their impacts and people’s responses to them. Failure to acknowledge this can diminish the efficiency of disaster responses and help create new categories of victims. This book provides a synthesis of key findings from the literature, with the aim of helping key practitioners understand how and in what ways natural disasters have different impacts on the sexes, and what can be done to integrate a gender perspective into disaster preparedness and management work in the South Asian context.

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Gender Perspectives on Policies in the Water Sector (The Gender and Water Development Report 2003) analyses gender mainstreaming in policies related to the water for people, water for food, water for nature and sanitation sectors.

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This 2008 publication of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction demonstrates the link between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, while contributing to the ongoing global effort to promote gender equality in socio-economic development.

The good practices selected show how disaster risk reduction can be integrated into climate change adaptation initiatives to reduce people’s vulnerabilities to the impact of climate change and weather-related disasters, paying attention in particular to women’s needs and priorities.

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Gender Perspectives: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Climate Change Adaptation (3.3 MB)

The Gender Scan, examining the Gender responsiveness of water-related loans of the Asian Development Bank is now available online.

This report represents the first Gender in Water Operations Review, also known as the Gender Scan. The Gender Scan examined a 25% sample of water-related loans between 1995-2000, a total of 21 projects. It describes the policy framework and procedures, summarizes findings of the review and gives conclusions and recommendations for more effective project implementation and impact.

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Because of their dependence on water resources, women have accumulated considerable knowledge about water resources, including location, quality and storage methods. However, efforts geared towards improving the management of the world’s finite water resources and extending access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation, often overlook the central role of women in water management.

This policy brief describes the current status, the issues of particular concern and recommends areas for action.

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What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations. Its 'good enough' approach emphasises simple and practical solutions and encourages the user to choose tools that are safe, quick, and easy to implement.

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"Meeting the needs of both men and women in development projects - A practical guide for engineers, technicians and project managers"

By Brian Reed, Sue Coates, Sarah Parry-Jones & others

This book has been produced to help engineers, technicians and project managers ensure that the facilities they design and build are beneficial to all members of society. Using many examples, especially examples related to water and sanitation, the book demonstrates that ‘one size does not fit all’. It shows how women, men and children frequently have different needs and different priorities because they use infrastructure in different ways. It explains how the community that will use the infrastructure is generally structured by inequalities of various kinds. The engineer may intend that the facility should serve the needs of all; but if there is no analysis of social issues then this intention is not likely to be realized.

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This 2009 publication jointly authored by Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), is meant to give background information on the pressing need to integrate a gender perspective into the efforts to promote safe and sustainable sanitation.

Read more or download WECF_GenderandSanitation_final.pdf  (1.76 MB)