Publications

Sidestream or Mainstream is about making all water uses the business of women and men. Everybody , men, women and children must help manage and share water fairly fairly. Conflicts over "troubled waters" - sometimes too much, too little or too polluted - must be avoided. They harm people, food production, nature, the environment, and sustainable development in general. Note that the address of the secretariat has changed!

The correct address and Spanish, Portuguese and French version of the leaflet can be found here:

Read more or download Sidestream_or_Mainstream_leaflet.pdf  (334 kB)

This 2005 paper adds to the literature on the multiple values of improved water supplies – improved health, time savings, and small-scale production for individual farmers and collectives – for the case of a rural community in the western highlands of Kenya. Members of those households, particularly women, have benefited substantially in terms of time savings, health and small-scale production.

Although women emerge as the main beneficiaries of improved water management in the community, their substantial contributions are largely hidden behind social norms regarding gender roles and relations. Research methods need to carefully triangulate information sources in order to clarify the very substantial and active roles performed by women.

You can find the pdf of this CAPRI Working Paper below (save it to your computer to open it):

CAPRIWP51.pdf  (320 kB)

EnMinAg GWA-BE-CA.pdf  (1.26 MB)

Issues and trends in gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation. A Background Document for the Gender and Water Session 3rd World Water Forum, Kyoto, Japan, 2003. A copy can be obtained by contacting the GWA Secretariat Joke Muylwijk

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Attached is the 22nd quarterly of UN-Habitat's programme: Water for Cities. The lead article is by Prabha Khosla, and discribes the GWA efforts to mainstream gender in the Water for African Cities programme. The work took place in a participatory manner, involving many stakeholders in 17 cities. Comprehensive RGA Reports were written by 17 GWA members in these cities.

Read more or download 22_20WfCnews_20FINAL_2020-9.pdf  (833 kB)

The Gender Approach to Water Management - Lessons Learnt Around the Globe is a 16 pages booklet that summarises the findings of an Electronic Conference Series Convened by the Gender and Water Alliance January - September 2002. A copy can be obtained by contacting the GWA secretariat.

Read more or download The_Gender_Approach_to_Water_Ma.pdf  (1.07 MB)

The following are different modules which compose the training package: Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management; Gender-Sensitive Training Skills; Mainstreaming Gender in the Project Cycle; Gender Mainstreaming Tools; Gender Mainstreaming in Organization and Policy Process; and Planning Training of Trainers Workshops. Under each one of these topics, the training package address a variety of related issues. This has now become the GWA Capacity Building Program’s basic Training of Trainers Package on Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated Water Resources Management.

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Involving men and women in the management of water and sanitation services

Read more or download wsplacwatergendercitizenship.pdf  (1.39 MB)

Proceedings of the Oxford Roundtable Meeting on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education for Schools, which took place on January 24-26, 2005 in Oxford, England. Apart from proceedings of an interesting workshop, in which GWA took part, this book also contains a practical Framework for Action.

Read more or download UNICEF_IRC_Oxford_Roundtable_Report.pdf  (1.76 MB)

The Water, Engineering, and Development Centre (WEDC) website has a useful selection of articles and publications on IWRM; WASH; gender issues in water; policy and governance issues in water, and the water market. These include the World Health Organisation (WHO) Technical Notes for Emergencies.

WEDC Online Bookshop