Reports

A report on the Accra conference on Water and Sustainable Development in Africa by Pauline Ikumi who represented GWA at this event.

The conference was held against a background of a number of international initiatives in the water sector. These include the adoption of the Dublin and Rio principles in 1992 and adoption of the African water Vision for 2025 during the Second World Water Forum in the Hague, Netherlands in 2000.

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On 3-4 December 2007 the first Asia Pacific Water Forum took place in Beppu, Japan. Sara Ahmed, Chair of the Gender and Water Alliance was invited to attend the forum and was interviewed by the magazine "Terra Viva" about women participation in water management issues. Click here to read the interview.

On the second day of the forum Sara Ahmed participated in a the panel discussion " Increasing Capacity for Local Actions". In this discussion Sara Ahmed outlined the GWA’s mandate and the challenges faced, that range from, monitoring impacts of our ToTs, looking at gender mainstreaming as an empowering process (and not simply ‘a toolkit approach’) and assessing the quality of participation of poor women and men in community-level water management.

Below you can download her report about the Asia Pacific Water Forum

Report of APWF.pdf  (133 kB)

The complete report of the Gender Seminar "Capturing the Big Picture of Gender in Water; Power relations in Policy and Practice : How to utilise existing knowledge?"

report Seminar Capturing the big picture in Gender.doc  (53 kB)

On the occasion of the state visit by the Dutch royalty, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi, India, organized a high profile seminar on 25 October 2007, to discuss how micro-finance could help accelerate water (for both domestic and livelihood purposes) and sanitation goals, particularly those stated in the MDGs, through innovative partnerships. The seminar was attended by Her Majesty, Queen Beatrix, His Royal Highness, the Prince of Orange (Chair, UN Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation) and Her Royal Highness Princess Maxima (Member UN Advisory Board on Inclusive Financial Sectors). Participants in the seminar included representatives from the micro-finance and water sectors in India and the Netherlands, from industry (banking), civil society, academia and government.

Dr. Sara Ahmed, GWA Chair, attended this workshop and wrote the attached report.

Microsoft Word - Rep_of_Delhi_ MicrofinWater_seminar_website.pdf  (88 kB)

070212_report_on_use_of_manuals.pdf  (352 kB)

From 11-17th of April 2007, Utthan People's Learning Centre for Water and Sanitation organised a international training of trainers for strategizing gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation management. This ToT was supported by GWA and took place in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.

The complete report of the workshop can be downloaded here.

Report of ToT 2007 Gujarat, India.pdf  (485 kB)

3- Workshop report_final.pdf  (1.12 MB)

Read more or download Report_on_Gender_in_Court.pdf  (194 kB)

As part of the Workshop on the revision of the Training of Trainers Manual which took place in Chile from 11-14 February 2008, the participants made a field visit on the last day of the workshop.

fieldtrip070308-web.pdf  (80 kB)

A report by GWA members Nazir Ahmed Memon and Shakeela Leghari who attended the Sindh Women Farmers Convention on 14 November 2007. The farmers convention was used as a tool to mainstream gender into the water management in Sindh, Pakistan.

For more information about the convention visit the Sida website: www.sida.org.pk

report of WFC Sindh Nov 2007.doc  (796 kB)