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1 Gender and Water Alliance
LAKE VICTORIA REGION WATER AND SANITATION INITIATIVE (LVWATSAN) CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP October 2006 Nairobi Gender and Water Alliance Joke Muylwijk and Prabha Khosla

2 Gender in Development - Gender and Diversity - Development is change - Contextual differences - Gender Ideology - No blueprints - Power relations, needs, skills

3 Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity Building for LVWATSAN 1. Why is gender a critical aspect of water and sanitation and how does it help towards achieving the MDG 7, target 10? - water is women’s responsibility, more than for men - sanitation is matter of life and death for women and small children, more than for men

4 Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity Building for LVWATSAN
Who are the key players in water an sanitation services and what could be done to enhance their capacity to integrate a gender perspective? - Users - Small private sector, technicians - Utilities, local government, bigger private sector - higher levels

5 Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity Building for LVWATSAN 3. How do we reduce gender violence and insecurity associated with water provision and access to sanitation facilities? - Acknowledge women’s knowledge and work in training at all levels - Involve women for practical improvements, different everywhere - Better and safer facilities decreases violence and increases dignity

6 Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity Building for LVWATSAN 4. Using examples well known to you, illustrate how involving women in decision making, including choosing priorities and design have inspired access to water and sanitation at local level - leakages - women masons - rehabilitation of traditional water sources - fisher women - see our paper and website for many examples

7 Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity Building for LVWATSAN 5. What are the critical strategies to ensure and sustain gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation services? - awareness raising on different levels - emphasise efficiency and sustainability - recognise enormous tasks of water engineers - include gender aspects in all Capacity Building - don’t leave gender mainstreaming to women - gender plans also need a budget - not just gender but also diversity: age, ethnicity, class - apply gender knowledge to other vulnerable groups. - collect gender-disaggregated data


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