GWA Activities

Together with the Institute for Environment and Water, GWA organized this 5 days training workshop in Limuru, Kenya from 25 till 29 November 2007. It was attended by thirty one participants (20 women and 11 men) drawn from the Civil Society Organizations and Networks, Ministry of Water (Kenya), various New Water Sector Institutions implementing reforms, consultants and other representatives from various institutions.

The report describes in detail the contents of most of the sessions, like key gender concepts, social constructs of gender and four different frameworks for disaggregated gender analysis. A lot of content is exemplified through specific reference to-, and cases from the local situation in Kenya. Moreover the report explains and compares a great number of facilitation methods and elaborates on the particulars of the group work and plenary discussions.

WEBReportToTKenya2007_CS.pdf  (567.7 kB)

The national training workshop on Concepts and Principles of IWRM took place in Rwanda from 14th to 18th July 2008. It was organised by the Rwanda Chapter of Nile IWRM-Net and hosted by the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in close collaboration with the Rwanda Ministry of Natural Resources. The implementation was made possible with financial support and human resources contributions from Cap-Net, GWA and SNV-Rwanda. GWA was invited to include and facilitate gender mainstreaming issues related to IWRM and its stakeholders. 27 participants from Rwanda and 2 from Burundi participated in the training.

In this illustrated workshop report you can read more on objectives, the training modules, the day-to-day programme and the detailed evaluation results.

WEBReportRwanda IWRM Workshop 14-18July08_CS.pdf  (929.1 kB)

A total of 39 professionals from water and environment ministries and institutes as well as NGOs in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya participated in the workshop, which was organised by the Gender and Water Alliance in close coordination with the Institute of Environment and Water in Nairobi. The training took place from 30 March till 5 April 2009 at the Yaya Center, Nairobi, Kenya.

The illustrated report summarizes all presentations and ensuing discussions day by day and it documents participants’experiences on gender mainstreaming in IWRM and water policies from the Eastern African Region, with e.g. interesting examples from Kenya’s flower industry and the field visit report on the work of the Kimande trust in Nairobi’s Kibera slum.

WEBrep TOTNairobi0309_CS.pdf  (575.9 kB)