Narrative Report on the Regional Workshop Mainstreaming Gender in IWRM in Southeast Asia, November 2007, Siem Reap, Cambodia

The Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming Gender in Integrated Water Resource Management in Southeast Asia was held in Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia, from 26 to 29 November 2007. The workshop was orgnaised by CamboNet with the Department of Planning and spupported by CapNet/AguaJaring, the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), the Mekong River Commission (MRC) and M-Power and attended by 35 participants from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The report explains that this workshop was implemented as a direct follow up on the recommendations resulting from GWA/Asian Institute of Technology, Regional Strategic Planning Workshop on gender and IWRM, held at AIT in July 2007 in Bangkok. It further summarizes the programme with a detailed overview of the expected outcomes and results and elaborates on the workshop evaluation. The 4 annexes of the report contain the detailed workshop curriculum day by day, the proposed Regional Action Plan for Gender Mainstreaming in IWRM, totalling a number of 63 country-level project titles, and the opening and closing speeches ad verbatim.