water for a food-secure world gender, institutions, equity, development katherine snyder
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Water for a food-secure world
Gender, Institutions, Equity, Development
Katherine Snyder
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Gender
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Key points to frame gender research
• Remembering that gender is not just women• Gender is a social and cultural construction
and so varies considerably according to context.
• Need to move beyond focus on ‘tools’ to more focus on analysis of gender relations (not just roles), cultural and institutional contexts. Not just what patterns exist but why.
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Key points• Addressing poverty will not in itself solve the
issues of gender equity and greater gender equity will similarly not necessarily solve poverty
• Formal versus informal: pay attention to women’s influence in the informal sphere
• Different types of water for different purposes (MUS)
• Women not homogenous group – young girls and hired labor often drawing water
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Key points• Decision-making: who makes decisions and over
what• A ‘technicist’ rationale fails to address political
and social realities (quota approaches do not solve inequity)
• Irrigation within larger social, environmental, institutional context
• Institutions: understanding multiple levels and layers of institutions and how they interact
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Possible Research Themes: gender, equity, institutions
• Gender, technology and production– Impact of different technologies as well as impact
of increased productivity on men and women
• Institutions and agencies: how do institutions address gender and equity issues; does gender composition within institutions affect how gender equity is targeted in schemes
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Themes• Participation and entitlements (tenure, access,
labor, etc.)• Institutional failures and successes: understanding
bureaucracies and levers for institutional and behavioral change
• Irrigation and markets (gender, equity, institutions)• Irrigation and livelihoods• Traditional versus ‘modern’ irrigation• Change over time
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Interventions
• Technical interventions without advocacy and awareness raising unlikely to address underlying gender inequities
• Research should link to and involve NGO/civil society sector as well as government
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Concluding points• Irrigation systems not static: need better
understanding of drivers of change in both positive and negative directions
• Multiscale issues• Discourse and narratives of modernity,
intensification, etc. • Multisectoral issues: holistic approach• Users differentiated by social categories: where do
benefits go?