Strategic CooperationNEW Effective gender mainstreaming in water management: From guidelines to practice submitted 2007-02-12 (water management) |
The recently published Both ENDS Working Paper Effective gender mainstreaming in water management for sustainable livelihoods: From guideline to practice, presents the results of the joint project of the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), the Comprehensive Assessment of water management in agriculture (CA), and Both ENDS (BE). The project was funded by OXFAM-NOVIB. In the project, the three organisations have set out to analyse why it proves so difficult to mainstream gender in water management. Moreover, they developed a Minimum Agenda that provides practical and realistic recommendations to practitioners, policy makers, researchers and gender specialists working in the field of water and agriculture, to genuinely and effectively address gender differences and inequities in policy, research and in the field. GWA, CA and BE view the minimum agenda as a living document, which needs further substantiation with demonstrative examples and case studies and supportive tools. They hope the analysis and agenda presented will stimulate all stakeholders in the water sector to start working in their respective roles and activities on the integration of gender in water management, and further discuss strategies to enhance this integration. The Working Paper is based on the outcomes of different project activities. The separate reports of these project activities, the original project proposal, as well as the working paper (also in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic), will soon be available on CDrom and can all be downloaded from www.genderandwater.org, www.iwmi.cgiar.org, and below. For more information or suggestions for follow-up, please contact us: Annelieke Douma, Both ENDS: ad(at)bothends.org; Joke Muylwijk, Gender and Water Alliance: jokemuylwijk(at)chello.nl; Samyukhta Varma, Comprehensive Assessment/IWMI: samyuktha.varma(at)cgiar.org To download the Working Paper click here: English, Español, Portuguesa, Français, Arabic. Hard copies of the Working Paper can be ordered through ad(at)bothends.org The outcomes of the different project activities can be also be downloaded:
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