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GWA joined the Tata Institute for Social Sciences, SaciWaters, and Soppecom to support the organization of this 5 days training programme, which was held from 20-24 October 2008 in Goa, India.The training was the first in a series of workshops as part of the “Crossing Boundaries: Regional Capacity Building on IWRM & Gender and Water project” and 29 participants from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Buthan and Nepal participated in the event. The reports starts with the organisation and preparation process, which includes practical tips for those who want to organise a workshop themselves. The second part of the report describes the course day by day and session by session with ample attention for each session’s key points. Apart from gender concepts, current debates about water rights, the course elaborated on gender concerns in key water sectors, like irrigation, domestic water, sanitation and hygiene, in particular menstrual hygiene management. The third section of the report gives an overview of the exercises and activities carried out by the participants. The report continues with an interesting summary of the participants’ comments on the various workshop topics and sessions. It ends with the assessment of the training by the core team. These last two sections hold valuable lessons on (sensitive) contents as well as on training techniques. The daily workshop schedule and detailed evaluation of the workshop can be found in its annexes.

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.

GWA ensures the integration of gender issues in national training on IWRM in Rwanda, July 2008 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.

From 2010 until 2012 GWA and UN-Habitat cooperated to mainstream gender in the "Water for Latin American and Caribbean Cities" programme.

GWA was contracted by WSP to implement a gender audit of the organisation in three South Asian countries: India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

From 2009 until 2011 GWA together with the Mekong River Commission (MRC) assisted UN-Habitat in Mainstreaming Gender in two of their Asian programmes: The Water for Asian Cities Programme" and the "Mekong Water and Sanitation Initiative".

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. To download the podcast of Sara Ahmed's lecture, visit this link and scroll down the page to the podcast of 27 January 2009 titled: "Asia Pacific Week 2009 - 04: Reforming Water, Transforming Women: Does Gender Matter in Water Management in Asia and the Pacific?". Please be aware that the podcast is a large file (20 MB) and may take a long time to download depending on your internet speed.

Here you will find all the reports which were presented during the Asia Pacific Consultation Workshop on Water and Poverty, 22 - 26 September 2002, in Dhaka .

WATER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA - REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS' CONFERENCE FOR PRIORITY SETTING. By Pauline Ikumi who represented the GWA as a Gender Ambassador at this event on the April 15 - 17, Accra, Ghana

From 21-23 October 2003, the South Asian Conference on Sanitation took place in Dhaka Bangladesh. GWA presented a keynote "Sanitation, Hygiene and Gender", Rose Lidonde (a GWA representative) was interviewed and GWA materials were distributed. A joint SACOSAN declaration was developed by ministers and high civil servants representing the nine participating countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the South of Asia.