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Within the framework of the Crossing Boundaries: Regional Capacity Building on IWRM and Gender & Water Project, GWA was again one of the contributors to the second workshop on Gender, Water and Equity which was held from 27 April -1 May 2009 at the Kalina Campus in Mumbai. A total of 20 participants from India and Nepal participated in the training. Apart from a detailed description of the individual training sessions, exercises, and evaluation experiences, the report features the account of a fascinating plenary on gender, water and sanitation issues in urban slums, which took place after the field visit of the participants to an urban slum in Mumbai.

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.

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

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.

Three years after the first South Asian Conference on Sanitation which was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the second SACOSAN took place from 20-21 September 2006 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The executive director of GWA was invited by the Ministry of Environment of Pakistan to speak about “A Gender Approach to Sanitation – Empowerment of Women, Men and Children” in a Gender and Sanitation Session.

By: Pramod Deshmukh. Source Bulletin February 2007

Newsletter composed by a GWA member for GWA members in Bangladesh, India and West Bengal. Issue January 2009

Newsletter composed by a GWA member for GWA members in Bangladesh, India and West Bengal. Issue December 2008

The first Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) South Asia Regional Workshop, which was held from 23 to 25 January 2007 in Kathmandu, Nepal, had about 50 participants. They were both women and men, from NGOs, water networks, donor organizations and academia in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka as well as representatives from Water Aid, U.K. and the GWA Secretariat, the Netherlands. The Workshop was co-hosted by the Nepal Water for Health Foundation (NEWAH), one of the largest NGOs in Nepal working on water, health and sanitation from a gender and poverty perspective.