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World Oceans Day: Gender and the Oceans
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The World Ocean Day on 7 June 2019, focusses on Gender. GWA wrote the document with cases on India, Mexico and Philippines. See https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/gender-and-water-alliance.
Anamika Amani was in New York to represent GWA in the panel. See the report under Water Sectors:
https://genderandwater.org/en/water-sectors/fisheries/un-environment-gender-in-marine-and-coastal-ecosystems/gwa-at-the-un-world-oceans-day-2019/view
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Steering toward a Better Future for People and Planet: Learning from global experiences of mainstreaming gender in coastal and marine ecosystems management.
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2018. Cases are from India (Odisha), Mexico and Philippines. More practical cases are welcome to be added to this text.
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Fisheries and Coastal Management
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UN Environment Gender in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
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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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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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Knowledge Development
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Climate Change and Gender
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This GWA factsheet illustrates the gender aspects of climate change and can be useful in a ToT on gender and climate change.
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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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Knowledge Development
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Research and Field study Reports
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Voices of SIDR Survivors: Life stories of surviving victims of Cyclone SIDR
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This book is a rare compilation of the unheard life stories of some survivors of the deadly Cyclone SIDR that hit Bangladesh in 2007. Using the actual words of the survivors as far as possible, the book attempts to recount the suffering, courage and attempts of poor women and men survivors to improve their situation and get back on their feet after devastating disasters. Despite their resourcefulness and amazing capacity to adapt and survive, women and men such as these survivors of SIDR in coastal Bangladesh are as yet mostly unseen and unheard - reduced to a number in disaster statistics on loss and damage, and not even this sometimes. Through this documentation we hope to bring to the attention of decision makers and the wider public not only the needs and interests of those left behind in the wake of a disaster, but also their capacity and skills - which is better used in relief and rehabilitation efforts, rather than ignored.
GWAPB acknowledges Voice of South Bangladesh for enabling this work, and also the Netherlands Embassy for financing this work.
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Knowledge Development
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Training Guide: Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development (2011)
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The purpose of this guide is to promote gender-responsive and socially-sensitive climate change
research and development in the agriculture and food security sectors through participatory
approaches. The guide focuses on the household and community level. It provides users with
resources and tools for collecting, analysing and sharing gender-sensitive information about
agricultural communities, households and individual household members who are facing climatic
changes.
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Report on Training Course on Gender, Adaptation to Climate Change, and IWRM (2011)
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For the four days from 25th to 28th July 2011, thirty two participants from different parts of Sudan came together in Khartoum to take part in a course: Gender, Adaptation to Climate Change and Water Resources Management (IWRM). The course was organized by the Development Studies and Research Institute (DSRI), University of Khartoum, in collaboration with Nile IWRM-Net and with support from UNDP/Cap-Net.
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Reports
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Gender, Water and Climate Change (2009)
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Climate change is a reality, and poses a serious long term threat to society and to the environment. Water is particularly threatened by climate change. With rising temperatures, changes in runoff patterns and increased water evaporation, climate change will greatly affect the distribution of the world’s water and the timing of flows. Such challenges of climate change are not gender neutral. Women and men have different vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate impacts due to differing roles, opportunities, and access to resources. This folder gives an overview of key challenges and concludes with recommendations for policy and practice.
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