UN-Habitat Water for African Cities Programme

To address the concerns emerging from the Rapid Gender and Pro-poor Assessment in the Water for African Cities II programme, UN-HABITAT’s WSIB in partnership with GWA undertook 14 gender training workshops in 17 cities of the WAC II programme. The aim was to strengthen knowledge, develop gender mainstreaming skills and inculcate a gender responsive culture among the decision and policy makers, implementing partners and stakeholders in the water and sanitation sector. A number of more than 420 people both women and men were trained.

As a next step in the programme UN-HABITAT WSIB together with GWA is currently preparing documentation on WATSAN gender sensitive programme project policies and checklists from the 14 cities as best practices to be shared.

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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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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.

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As part of the partnership agreement between GWA and UN-Habitat, the first Expert Group Meeting of the Gender Mainstreaming Strategy Initiative of the UN-Habitat Water for African Cities II Programme took place between 13th and 17th of June in Mombasa, Kenya. The results of the Rapid Gender Assessments carried out in 17 African cities were presented and used as basis for gender mainstreaming city action plans

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