GWA Activities

The 3rd Southeast Asian Water Forum took place from October 22-26, 2007 at the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its theme was “ Consolidating Actions Towards Effective Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management: What Have Done?, What More Shall We do?”

The Gender and Water Alliance was represented by 2 of its members who attended session, presented a poster and organised a side event. Their contributions can be found underneath,

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On 27 January 2009 GWA Chairperson - Mrs Sara Ahmed - delivered a lecture " Reforming Water, Transforming Women" to a large gathering of scholars at the Australian National University as part of their Asia Pacific Week 2009 event.

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From 18-21 July 2007 a GWA/AIT Regional Workshop on Strategic Planning for Mainstreaming Gender in IWRM was held for Southeast Asia and the Pacific at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. The workshop was organized by the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) and was co-hosted by AIT’s Gender and Development Studies Programme. A total of 33 participants and 20 graduate students and staff participated in the workshop.

The first day was spent on getting the general picture on gender mainstreaming in IWRM in the region and presenting the different networks and stakeholders.

The next days were used for group work to discuss existing best practices and to plan and coordinate regional activities around:

A. Capacity building

B. Knowledge development and dissemination

C. Policy and advocacy

The working groups met during two sessions and developed some priority activities and designated coordinators to get them moving, leading to a draft strategic plan for the region. The last day a field visit took place to Bang Pha Rok Community, where an environmental project was visited.

The complete report of the workshop can be down-loaded here

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The Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming Gender in Integrated Water Resource Management in Southeast Asia was held in Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia, from 26 to 29 November 2007. The workshop was orgnaised by CamboNet with the Department of Planning and spupported by CapNet/AguaJaring, the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), the Mekong River Commission (MRC) and M-Power and attended by 35 participants from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

The report explains that this workshop was implemented as a direct follow up on the recommendations resulting from GWA/Asian Institute of Technology, Regional Strategic Planning Workshop on gender and IWRM, held at AIT in July 2007 in Bangkok. It further summarizes the programme with a detailed overview of the expected outcomes and results and elaborates on the workshop evaluation. The 4 annexes of the report contain the detailed workshop curriculum day by day, the proposed Regional Action Plan for Gender Mainstreaming in IWRM, totalling a number of 63 country-level project titles, and the opening and closing speeches ad verbatim.

WEBREP TrainWorkshpCambodia1107_CS.pdf  (1.30 MB)