Gender, Water and Development: Issues for the Future

Panel: From Research to Revolution!

Barbara van KoppenInternational Water Management Institute/

Water,Land and Ecosystems

Questions

1. What are the main game changers in the future? Commitment, up to highest levels of resource allocation, and strategic coordination by women and men

3. How do we frame the research so that it doesn’t fall into the box of ‘that’s a woman’s issue’ and get side-lined?Keep jumping out of box, for people-centred water development and management with water technologies to serve instead of control

2. How do we get the research to the people who are going to use itEnsuring that the research is relevant to the users, plus communication.

So: How to ensure research relevance?

How to ensure research relevance?

Not alone! Research to facilitate dialogue

Strategic substance in strategic partnerships, including civil society

Example: for Conference ‘Gender, Water and Development: the untapped connection’ : AMCOW gender strategy

Example: gender and poverty: overcoming the silos of WASH and productive water sectors

AMCOW gender strategy

policies

resource allocation

project design implementing

research capacity building

strategic coordination

monitoring/ indicators

Overcoming silos for a human right to water for health and livelihoods

Gender inequality: men’s paid jobs and control over productive resources versus women’s unpaid care economy and marginalization

Amplified in poverty: chores of water fetching and need for both water-related incomes (anyhow more common in Africa than elsewhere)

So BOTH: • Equal responsibility to meet the human right to water for

domestic uses and sanitation• Equal, better access to water to meet the human rights to

food, adequate standard of living and participation How? Community-driven multiple-use water services

Multiple use water services to climb the water ladder: at least 50 lpcd (5 lpcd safe)

Thank you for your attention

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