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Empowerment: four interacting elements for analysis and as an objective for development
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This paper concisely explains the empowerment approach used by the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) in its work, outlining and illustrating some practical ways to apply this methodology in capacity building trainings, and as a tool for analysis and monitoring of development project interventions.
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GWA Products
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Capacity building
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Empowerment for Gender Equality
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Gender and Water Inventory
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There are many policy documents, acts, research papers, case studies, books, guidelines, and toolkits that are relevant to the water sector and the different users in Bangladesh. GWAPB maintains an inventory of these documents and publications, specific to the context of Bangladesh, reviews the information with a gender-sensitive lens, lists the sources, and provides this information in an accessible and user-friendly format for reference of the public, through our online Gender and Water Inventory (GWI).
The GWI is a living inventory to be updated on a regular basis. In case you want to add a document, please mail to secretariat (ad) gwalliance.org.
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Bangladesh
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GWAPB Products
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Knowledge Development
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Gender and Water Poverty: Salinity in Rampal and Saronkhola, Bagerhat
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The NGO Voice of South Bangladesh conducted a study in two unions of Bagerhat district, in the Coastal Belt, where salinity is increasing as a result of various factors, amongst them: climate change and global warming resulting in sea water rise, and the large dam in India that withholds the water in the dry season and opens the gates in the monsoon. Shrimp cultivation is a third factor. Both poor women and men suffer from the saline water, but women more: they are responsible for water and hygiëne in the household, and for their reproductive duties. So much water everywhere, but drinking water is far away or expensive. In the paper the findings are analysed from an empowerment perspective. Different categories of people are interviewed.
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Bangladesh
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Knowledge Development
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Research and Field study Reports
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Gender and Water Poverty: Salinity in Rampal and Saronkhola, Bagerhat
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The NGO Voice of South Bangladesh conducted a study in two unions of Bagerhat district, in the Coastal Belt, where salinity is increasing as a result of various factors, amongst them: climate change and global warming resulting in sea water rise, and the large dam in India that withholds the water in the dry season and opens the gates in the monsoon. Shrimp cultivation is a third factor. Both poor women and men suffer from the saline water, but women more: they are responsible for water and hygiëne in the household, and for their reproductive duties. So much water everywhere, but drinking water is far away or expensive. In the paper the findings are analysed from an empowerment perspective. Different categories of people are interviewed.
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Bangladesh
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Knowledge Development
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Research and Field study Reports
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Gender Audit of WSP South-Asia
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GWA was contracted by WSP to implement a gender audit of the organisation in three South Asian countries: India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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GWA Activities
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Advocacy and Policy influencing
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Gender Equality Results in the Punjab Community Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project Pakistan
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The case study analyses the available information and experiences in mainstreaming gender concerns in the Punjab Community Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project in Pakistan. It highlights the lessons learned by the stakeholders involved and pays special attention to aspects of good practice that could be replicated in other ADB water projects.
DISCLAIMER: Although this case study is part of the activities under the Gender in Water Partnership of ADB and GWA, the report reflects the opinion of the author which is not necessarily that of ADB or GWA.
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GWA Products
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Knowledge on gender and water
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Case studies
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Gender, Water and Poverty in Bangladesh
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According to the World Bank’s Development Indicators 1999 (WB 99), more children remain under-nourished in Bangladesh than anywhere else in the world. This means increased vulnerability to diseases as children grown up, problems which will be exacerbated by limited access to health care and water supply.In the past, poverty alleviation was not a particular aim of water sector development.
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Library
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Case studies
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GWA at International Conference on Water Resources Policy in South Asia, 2008
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GWA Activities
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International and global profile
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GWA South Asia Regional Workshop: Strategic Planning for Mainstreaming Gender in IWRM
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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.
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GWA Activities
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Strengthening the network
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Impacts of domestic water supply on gender and income: results from a participatory study in a drought-prone region in Gujarat, India
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In this paper the value of an improved domestic water supply was investigated for economic development and gender relations in rural households in a drought-prone area. The extra income that women gain when the supply works and is used economically helps poor families to bridge the dry season. The findings support the view that rural poverty and the status of women would receive a significant boost if policy makers focused on
providing employment opportunities for women along with improved water supplies
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Articles
