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Does Increased Water Access Empower Women?
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Saskia Ivens examines the extent to which women have benefited from increased water access. She argues that while gender equality is crucial for the sustainability of water programmes, its advancement through water programmes has been limited. She calls
for more impact studies and suggests the use of empowering participatory approaches.
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Articles
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Review of Oxfam’s Women’s WASH Platforms (2011)
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This report is a review of the Women's Wash Platforms as an approach to gender issues in WASH. The WWP's are teams of women established at the village level, working within their own villages to disseminate information on water and sanitation issues, encourage ‘best practices,’ and implement small Oxfam-‐funded projects that they design and implement themselves with the help of Oxfam staff and partners.
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Publications
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Where to go? Resources on Gender, Water and Sanitation for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Nepal and Vietnam (2012)
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This Resource e-book is a digital document of collected resources from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Nepal and Vietnam on gender and WATSAN. The goal of this e-book is to consolidate and share knowledge on available expertise and information on Gender and WATSAN in, and specific to these countries. It includes names of experts and organizations working in gender and WATSAN; references to available documents, tools and websites (some in the local languages), as well as presents some case studies on gender mainstreaming in WATSAN.
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Knowledge on gender and water
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Gender Responsiveness in ADB Water Policies and Projects (2006)
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Report by H. Derbyshire on the gender review of ADB water operations jointly conducted by the Gender and Water Alliance and the Asian Development Bank. This Gender Scan examined the Gender responsiveness of water-related loans of the Asian Development Bank between 1995-2000.
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Policy influencing
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Expert Group Meeting Report: Gender-disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation (2008)
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Report of the expert group meeting on Gender-Disaggregated Data on water and Sanitation in which the GWA executive Director, Joke Muylwijk, participated.
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GWA Activities
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Advocacy and Policy influencing
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Access to Water and Empowerment of Women: Study of Drudgery Work and Relief by SUJAL (2013)
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Study in 3 states of India assessing if having water supply closer to home decreases the drudgery work of women.
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Knowledge on gender and water
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Case study on Gender and Empowerment through Wash
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It is often assumed that participation and representation of women in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) committees will lead to their empowerment. Therefore, in order to get a better insight into “How” participation in the WASH committees can lead to empowerment of women, Simavi and the Gender and Water Alliance, through the Gender and Water Programme Bangladesh, decided to do a study to get a better insight on “If”, “How” and “Why” women’s empowerment has taken place as a result of participation in the WASH committee or other WASH interventions.
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Bangladesh
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Knowledge Development
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Research and Field study Reports
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Count and be Counted, be Empowered (2012)
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Gender disagregated data review in water and sanitation management with a focus on Africa.
In this report, based on available literature and the opinion of professionals working in the sector, GWA develops a methodology to gather, process and use gender-disaggregated data, lists indicators with different priorities, and writes a Policy Brief, for politicians and decision-makers in the water and sanitation sectors.
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Knowledge on gender and water
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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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Empowerment: four interacting elements for analysis and as an objective for development
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This paper explains the empowerment approach used by the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) in its work, and specifically outlines and illustrates 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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Bangladesh
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GWAPB Products
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Knowledge Development
