Gender Resources

Susan Bazilli interviews South African Deputy Minister of Water and Environment Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, at the Stockholm International Water Week, August 2011. See http://www.dwa.gov.za/.

An Institutional Framework for Stakeholder Participation in Transboundary Basins
This report is one of several reports arising from a Water Research Commission funded review of the involvement of national water institutions and civil society in international river basin agreements in South Africa. The purpose of the research was to examine the role of South African national institutions, stakeholders and processes in the development and implementation of institutional arrangements, processes and international agreements in shared watercourses.
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Dry Taps … Gender and Povery in Water Resource Management
This paper reviews current practices in water utilization and management in developing countries, focussing specifically on the gendered nature of water decison-making.
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Gender and Water
The differences and inequalities between women and men influence how individuals respond to changes in water resources management. Understanding gender roles, relations, and inequalities can help explain the choices people make and their different options. Involving both women and men in integrated water resources initiatives can increase project effectiveness and efficiency. Without specific attention to gender issues and initiatives, projects can reinforce inequalities between women and men and even increase gender disparities.

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Gender in the GEF Small Grants Programme
Many projects supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) have been recognized for successfully promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. The reason for this high level of success is that gender is one of the main criteria considered for the approval of grants.
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Gender Mainstreaming Impact Study
This impact assessment identifies how the water and sanitation initiatives implemented under the Water Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch of UN-HABITAT, have strategically mainstreamed gender aspects in its various initiatives and to identify achievements and impact, challenges, lessons learned and provide recommendations.
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GWP Technical Brief #5, Mainstreaming gender in integrated water resources management strategies and plans: practical steps for practioners
This brief approaches role of women in water resources development.
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Mainstreaming Gender in the Governance of Transboundary Waters
This paper reviews the concepts of gender and gender mainstreaming in the context of water and governance. The paper next examines how the gender mainstreaming (GM) of water has been carried out by major multi-lateral agencies and organizations engaged in international development. Current literature is reviewed in the field to illustrate the conclusion that while there has been extensive scholarly and practitioner focused work on gender and governance, and gender and water, this theoretical and practical work has not addressed the issue of GM of international transboundary waters. The paper concludes with some recommendations for the way forward for The UBC Project.
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Mainstreaming Gender at the GEF
The GEF recognizes that, for its project interventions to achieve their global environmental objectives, particular attention should be paid to enhancing both women’s and men’s contributions and taking into account their different needs, roles and situations in every step of the project cycle, including project design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. This publication provides an account and first analysis of the scope, content and depth of gender mainstreaming in GEF projects, and offers future directions to stengthen this approach.
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Making Change Happen – Actions Necessary to Accelerate the Achievement of all Millenium Development Goals
Gender equality helps accelerate achievement of each goal. There is solid evidence that progress in gender equality in one goal often contributes simultaneously towards progress on a number of other development goals.
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Situational Analysis of Women Water Professionals in South Asia
This paper reviews the situation of women water professionals (WWP) in South Asia (Bangladesh, India Nepal, and Sri Lanka) to understand their profiles, numbers and constraints. The study is part of a larger project, “Crossing Boundaries”, whose objective is to strengthen integrated and gender-sensitive water resources management policy and practice in South Asia.
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The Force of the Current – Watershed mangement from a gender equity perspective
This book is a conceptual and methodological proposal providing instruments and recommendations to build processes to promote gender equity in watershed management while promoting environmental sustainability and social participation.
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