Author: Asian Development Bank Publisher: Asian Development Bank ISBN: 9292549766 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 51
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The Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project aimed at expanding the coverage of improved water supply and sanitation facilities to poor and remote areas, and improving health and hygiene practices. Promoting equality between women and men and gender relations is relevant to the main aim of the project as well as to the project strategies. In this initiative, the focus was on gender equality and social inclusion, with an emphasis on inequalities among women and men, and among people from various castes and ethnic minorities. The project developed a gender, caste, and ethnicity strategy that sought to ensure the participation of women and ethnic minorities in decision-making processes, as well as their increased representation in leadership positions. It encouraged user committees led or owned by women and community-based organizations to participate in project activities for making positive changes in the lives of women and for their empowerment.
Author: Asian Development Bank Publisher: Asian Development Bank ISBN: 9292624253 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 196
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This publication presents a gender equality and social inclusion (GeSi) analysis of six priority sectors in Nepal: agriculture and natural resources management, energy, skills development, urban development, transport and water, and sanitation and hygiene. The publication identifies practical ways in which gender equality, social inclusion, and women’s empowerment approaches can be integrated into each of these sectors. The diagnostic aims to inform the GeSi initiatives of the Government of Nepal, the Asian development Bank, and other development partners of the country.
Author: Asian Development Bank Publisher: Asian Development Bank ISBN: 929254974X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 38
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The Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement Project sought to provide basic services of water supply, sanitation, and garbage collection and disposal in four cities in Madhya Pradesh, India. Over 5.6 million people benefited from improved water supply, while half a million people benefited from an improved wastewater management system and 4.7 million people benefited from an improved solid waste management system. These changes positively impacted the lives of the local community, in particular women and girls, who are primarily responsible for water management.
Author: Melita Grant Publisher: ISBN: 9781921543272 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Goal 6) to ?ensure access to clean water and sanitation for all? requires explicit attention to gender equality and social inclusion. Universal access to safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and appropriate management of water resources will only be achieved if the rights of women and marginalised peoples are fulfilled.
Author: Melita Grant Publisher: ISBN: 9781921543258 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Goal 6) to ?ensure access to clean water and sanitation for all'requires explicit attention to social inclusion. Achieving universal access to safely managed water andsanitation will only be reached if the needs and rights of the most marginalised are prioritised. Inequality,discrimination and social exclusion occurs in all societies and is often experienced by women, culturalminorities, youth, people with disabilities, older people, transgender and intersex people, poorest of thepoor, people considered low-caste, and indigenous peoples. Social exclusion will only be overcome inglobal water and sanitation efforts if all actors at all levels explicitly address discrimination and inequalityand proactively facilitate participation which redresses underlying unequal power dynamics. This paperfocuses on gender transformation in water and sanitation, as one key aspect of social inclusion. Thispaper explores the critical connection between gender and water and sanitation and water governanceinstitutions and arrangements for the benefit of all people.
Author: Christiane Fröhlich Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319640461 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 244
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This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities: it depends not only on natural water availability, but also on the respective socio-political context. It is regulated by gender-differentiated roles and responsibilities towards the resource, which are strongly influenced by, among others, tradition, religion, customary law, geographical availability, as well as the historical and socio-political context. While gender has been recognized as a key intervening variable in achieving equitable water access, most studies fail to acknowledge the deep interrelations between social structures and patterns of water use. Proof of these shortcomings is the enduring lack of data on water accessibility, availability and utilization that sufficiently acknowledges the relational nature of gender and other categories of power and difference, like class and socioeconomic status, as well as their comprehensive analysis. This book addresses this major research gap.
Author: Anne Coles Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100018322X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be marginalized in the development process. A close analysis of current policy and practice shows that organizations providing improved water supplies to poor communities typically neglect the gendered nature of access to and control over water resources. The resulting gender bias causes inefficiencies and injustices in water provision and reduces the effectiveness of well-meant efforts. This book shows how, in different environmental, historical and cultural contexts, gender has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives. Case studies include analysis of the role of water in inhibiting the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and the challenges of taking gender into account in large water projects in India and Nepal.