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Mainstreaming Gender in Sanitation and Hygiene in Uganda
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This case study describes the mainstreaming of gender in sanitation and hygiene with a purpose to facilitate incorporation of gender in the African sanitation and hygiene. It focuses on the following four issues: Concepts of Gender and Mainstreaming; The status of hygiene and sanitation in Uganda, the progress made in gender mainstreaming in Uganda; the benefits and incentives. It also gives conclusions and recommendations.
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Mainstreaming Gender in South African Sanitation Programmes: A Blind Spot or Common Practice?
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The linkages between women, sanitation and health and hygiene practices are strong, abundant, diverse and often self-evident. Yet the gaps in policy documents are not confined to government. The case study describes gender and sanitation in practice and why poor sanitation affects women most. Of course also the way forward is dealt with.
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Mainstreaming Gender into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programs. A training manual for water professionals. (2007)
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Manual developed by SNV and Protos for the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion, Rwanda.
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MAMA-86 and the Drinking Water Campaign in the Ukraine
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The case study highlights the work of MAMA-86, a national environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the Ukraine. It specifically focus on the Drinking Water Campaign and the many successful outcomes of the campaign for a participatory, democratic, accountable, and sustainable water sector and country.
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Manila Declaration for Global Action on Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, 2008
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Manila, Philippines 22 October 2008
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Ministerial Declaration of the 3rd World Water Forum, 2003
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Final declaration at the 3rd Wolrd Water Forum 23 March 2003, Kyoto, Japan
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Philipines: Engendering Environment and Natural Resources Management
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The experience of the department of environment and natural resources of the Philipines in mainstreaming gender and development.
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Policy Brief: Building Local Democracy through Natural Resources Interventions: An Environmentalist's Responsibility
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This policy brief from World Resources Institute (WRI) describes how natural resource management can strengthen and improve local democracy.
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Political Empowerment of Women in the South West IWRM Project
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The South West Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project (SWAIWRPMP) was supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) with a substantial grant from January 2006 until June 2015. In the project a concerted effort was made to involve women, and it is said that due to the project’s interventions the political empowerment of women has increased to such levels, that more women are elected in the Union Parishad. The Gender and Water Programme Bangladesh (GWAPB) undertook a field study to investigate whether and how this project has contributed to empowerment of women in the area, especially in the political dimension.
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Pro-poor water supply and sanitation - Nepal
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Less than 80 percent of the rural population in Nepal has access to safe drinking water while less than 25 percent use sanitation facility. Inadequate access to safe water supply combined with poor environmental sanitation and personal hygiene practices is among the leading causes of diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, worm infestation, skin diseases.
The The RWSSP Experience used a participatory approach including the non-formal education, hygiene and sanitation education and support to women' s technical training. This proved to have been very effective in empowering the communities including women and seem to result in strong community ownership.
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