Gender and water library

Documents on gender and water related to South Asia by others

Title	Description
Impacts of domestic water supply on gender and income: results from a participatory study in a drought-prone region in Gujarat, India	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-pro...
Special Journal Issue on Gender and Collective Action (JID)	The first 2008 issue of the Journal for International Development is a special issue on gender and collective action, which is made available free and open acce...
Towards a workable approach to mainstream gender in natural resources management (2012)	This paper describes the key results and lessons learned of a PSO funded project in which Both ENDS and partner organisations AMICHOCÓ in Colombia, ANCE in T...
Call for action of WASH practitioners’ Marketplace and Fair, 2008	WASH practitioners’ Marketplace and Fair, 10 - 13 November 2008, Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.
Pro-poor water supply and sanitation - Nepal	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...
Gender, Water and Poverty in Bangladesh	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 me...
Community Based Disaster Risk Mitigation- Gujarat	The poor live with minor and major hazards and disaster risk on a daily basis. Mitigating disaster risk involves reducing vulnerability and improving coping ca...
Addressing water and poverty: A Case Study of Area Water Partnerships and Women and Water Networks in South Asia	While women continue to be responsible for much of the water collection and management of food production for household consumption, their limited access milita...
Review of Oxfam’s Women’s WASH Platforms (2011)	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, wo...
Case study on Gender and Empowerment through Wash	It is often assumed that participation and representation of women in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) committees will lead to their empowerment. Therefore, ...
Voices of SIDR Survivors: Life stories of surviving victims of Cyclone SIDR	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 ...
Political Empowerment of Women in the South West IWRM Project	The South West Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project (SWAIWRPMP) was supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) ...