Publications

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.

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The MDGs are now the major recognised reference points for sustainable development. Although not made so specific, gender and water are greatly interconnected to and cut across most of the MDGs; therefore the relevance of this programme to assist in bringing these crucial relationships at the forefront, especially regarding the conducive role that women play as full actors of development.

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The "Minimum Agenda on Gender Mainstreaming for Researchers, Practicioners and Gender Experts", listing requirements and needs for gender mainstreaming for mainstreaming gender

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A Synthesis Report of Rapid Gender and Pro-Poor Assessments in the 17 Cities of the Water for African Cities (WAC) II Programme

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Co-authored by ex-GWA chairperson Sara Ahmed, and Elizabeth Fajber, this article in Oxfam's Gender and Development Journal discusses the different ways in which climate change impacts on poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded women and men.

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In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams, and other stakeholders to jointly identify research, development parameters, and contribute to decision-making. Ideally, the research or development process itself generates a situation of empowerment in which participants transform their vision and become able to take effective action. This book presents conceptual and methodological issues to facilitate participation amongst stakeholders in a variety of natural resource management initiatives. Each chapter presents in-depth experiences from Asia and Africa to highlight different ways in which this process can be achieved.

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This 2008 policy brief on women's access to public services is an output from the IDRC supported global research programe on gender and decentralisation. It speaks on the challenges that poor and socially marginalised women continue to face despite their high levels of participation in decentralised water management institutions.

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This manual was developed to provide guidelines to members of the Gender and Water Alliance and other development organizations – government, donors or civil society – concerned with water management or service delivery to develop gender policies appropriate to their own organizational contexts.

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Proceedings of 32nd Water, Engineering, and Development Centre conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 2006.

In this article the use of domestic water for poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban households in Vietnam are described. The study found that domestic water is being used for a broad range of productive activities, including widespread use in household gardens, animal husbandry and many type of micro enterprises. It also describes some gender aspects of these different productive activities and it found that it was most often poor households engaging in these activities. The paper concludes by considering the implications of these findings for policy makers.

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An overview of GWA publications and their availability.

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