Development Of A Women S Empowerment Metric For Water Sanitation And Hygiene We Wash

Author : Heckert, Jessica,Raghunathan, Kalyani,Myers, Emily,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Faas, Simone,Ferguson, Nathaniel,Seymour, Greg,Malapit, Hazel J.,Paz, Flor,Chiwasa, Febbie,Chilalika, Joan,Kamwaba-Mtethiwa, Jean,Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere,Simkoko, Abigail,Chilungo, Abdallah,Upadhyaya, Rachana,Pradhan, Meeta S.,Joshi, Nira,Shrestha, Sanish
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH) by Heckert, Jessica,Raghunathan, Kalyani,Myers, Emily,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Faas, Simone,Ferguson, Nathaniel,Seymour, Greg,Malapit, Hazel J.,Paz, Flor,Chiwasa, Febbie,Chilalika, Joan,Kamwaba-Mtethiwa, Jean,Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere,Simkoko, Abigail,Chilungo, Abdallah,Upadhyaya, Rachana,Pradhan, Meeta S.,Joshi, Nira,Shrestha, Sanish Pdf

There is a growing focus on gender-sensitive approaches and women’s empowerment in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. At the same time, there is a lack of metrics to measure women’s empowerment in the WASH sector. Such metrics are important for understanding the types of programmatic interventions that are most needed for addressing women’s empowerment, as well as for assessing their impacts on women’s empowerment. In this report, we describe the development of a Women’s Empowerment metrics for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH). We collected data from individual women and men in 812 households in Malawi and 826 households in Nepal. Using the data, we develop 14 indicators and establish cutoff thresholds (i.e., whether the individual is empowered) in the areas of intrinsic, instrumental, and collective agency in WASH; instrumental and intrinsic agency in menstrual hygiene management; and the empowerment environment (or resources for empowerment). In each country, we observe differences in empowerment levels between women and men, that favor men on most outcomes. Notably, in both countries, we find that women are much less likely than men to contribute to WASH infrastructure decisions, and most women are spending an undue amount of time contributing to WASH-related labor. In Nepal especially, agency related to menstrual hygiene management is also a substantial area of disempowerment for women.

Author : Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland
Publisher : Working in Gender & Developmen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Science
ISBN : 1788530837

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Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene by Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland Pdf

At birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing poverty, and serves to reinforce gender and other inequalities. Women and girls experience WASH needs differently from men, both as individuals, and as societies' carers. Gender and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene highlights the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women's empowerment.

Author : Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1788530861

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Gender and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene by Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland Pdf

Author : Aruna Rao,Joanne Sandler,David Kelleher,Carol Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317437079

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Gender at Work by Aruna Rao,Joanne Sandler,David Kelleher,Carol Miller Pdf

At a time when some corporate women leaders are advocating for their aspiring sisters to ‘lean in’ for a bigger piece of the existing pie, this book puts the spotlight on the deep structures of organizational culture that hold gender inequality in place. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations makes a compelling case that transforming the unspoken, informal institutional norms that perpetuate gender inequality in organizations is key to achieving gender equitable outcomes for all. The book is based on the authors’ interviews with 30 leaders who broke new ground on gender equality in organizations, international case studies crafted from consultations and organizational evaluations, and lessons from nearly fifteen years of experience of Gender at Work, a learning collaborative of 30 gender equality experts. From the Dalit women’s groups in India who fought structural discrimination in the largest ‘right to work’ program in the world, to the intrepid activists who challenged the powerful members of the UN Security Council to define mass rape as a tactic of war, the trajectories and analysis in this book will inspire readers to understand and chip away at the deep structures of gender discrimination in organizational policies, practices and outcomes. Designed for practitioners, policy makers, donors, students and researchers looking at gender, development and organizational change, this book offers readers a widely tested tool of analysis – the Gender at Work Analytical Framework – to assess the often invisible structures of gender bias in organizations and to map desired strategies and change processes.

Author : Connor, Richard
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Energy development
ISBN : 9789231000713

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The United Nations world water development report 2015: water for a sustainable world by Connor, Richard Pdf

The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is hosted and led by UNESCO. WWAP brings together the work of 31 UN-Water Members as well as 37 Partners to publish the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) series. Under the theme Water for Sustainable Development, the WWDR 2015 has been prepared as a contribution from UN-Water to the discussions surrounding the post-2015 framework for global sustainable development. Highlighting water's unique and often complex role in achieving various sustainable development objectives, the WWDR 2015 is addressed to policy- and decision-makers inside and outside the water community, as well as to anyone with an interest in freshwater and its many life-giving benefits. The report sets an aspirational yet achievable vision for the future of water towards 2050 by describing how water supports healthy and prosperous human communities, maintains well functioning ecosystems and ecological services, and provides a cornerstone for short and long-term economic development. It provides an overview of the challenges, issues and trends in terms of water resources, their use and water-related services like water supply and sanitation. The report also offers, in a rigorous yet accessible manner, guidance about how to address these challenges and to seize the opportunities that sound water management provides in order to achieve and maintain economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Author : Chris Bobel,Inga T. Winkler,Breanne Fahs,Katie Ann Hasson,Elizabeth Arveda Kissling,Tomi-Ann Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811506147

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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies by Chris Bobel,Inga T. Winkler,Breanne Fahs,Katie Ann Hasson,Elizabeth Arveda Kissling,Tomi-Ann Roberts Pdf

This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.

Author : Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Malapit, Hazel J.,Seymour, Greg,Heckert, Jessica,Doss, Cheryl,Johnson, Nancy,Rubin, Deborah,Thai, Giang,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Meyers, Emily,GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Can agricultural development projects empower women? A synthesis of mixed methods evaluations using pro-WEAI in the gender, agriculture, and assets project (phase 2) portfolio by Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Malapit, Hazel J.,Seymour, Greg,Heckert, Jessica,Doss, Cheryl,Johnson, Nancy,Rubin, Deborah,Thai, Giang,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Meyers, Emily,GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team Pdf

Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack of comparable measures. Moreover, the context-specificity of empowerment implies that a quantitative measure alone will be inadequate to capture the nuances of the empowerment process. The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a portfolio of 13 agricultural development projects in nine countries in South Asia and Africa, developed the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and qualitative protocols for impact evaluations. Pro-WEAI covers three major types of agencies: instrumental, intrinsic, and collective. This paper synthesizes the results of 11 mixed-methods evaluations to assess these projects’ empowerment impacts. The projects implemented the pro-WEAI and its associated qualitative protocols in their impact evaluations. Our synthesis finds mixed, and mostly null impacts on aggregate indicators of women’s empowerment, with positive impacts more likely in the South Asian, rather than African, cases. There were more significant impacts on instrumental agency indicators and collective agency indicators, reflecting the group-based approaches used. We found few significant impacts on intrinsic agency indicators, except for those projects that intentionally addressed gender norms. Quantitative analysis does not show an association between the types of strategies that projects implemented and their impacts, except for capacity building strategies. This finding reveals the limitations of quantitative analysis, given the small number of projects involved. The qualitative studies provide more nuance and insight: some base level of empowerment and forms of agency may be necessary for women to participate in project activities, to benefit or further increase their empowerment. Our results highlight the need for projects to focus specifically on empowerment, rather than assume that projects aiming to reach and benefit women automatically empower them. Our study also shows the value of both a common metric to compare empowerment impacts across projects and contexts and qualitative work to understand and contextualize these impacts.

Author : Charla Britt,Danielle Egerer
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798400268892

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Exploring the Role of Public Expenditure in Advancing Female Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality by Charla Britt,Danielle Egerer Pdf

This paper discusses connections between female economic empowerment and government spending. It is an abbreviated overview for non-gender-experts on how fiscal expenditure may support female economic empowerment as an interim step toward advancing gender equality. From this perspective, it offers a preliminary exploration of key factors and indicators associated with gender-differentiated impacts in each of five main categories of public spending (education, health, capital expenditure, government employment and compensation, and social protection and labor market programs). It examines and proposes indices within each category that can be used to identify and measure related gender gaps and suggests associations and connections between those indices, public spending, and other available proxy measurements with some benchmarking potential which is summarized at the end of each category in a Gender Lens Matrix for ease of reference. The paper draws on an extensive literature review and examination of publicly available datasets. It also highlights and discusses gaps in data which limit gender analysis. The purpose of the paper is to advance dialogue on the adoption of a gendered approach to government spending, by providing a gender lens that may assist country level assessments and discussions among IMF staff and member country authorites.

Author : Melita Grant,Juliet Willetts,WaterAid,Institute for Sustainable Futures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1921543272

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Gender and SDG 6 by Melita Grant,Juliet Willetts,WaterAid,Institute for Sustainable Futures Pdf

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 : Aidan A. Cronin,Pradeep K. Mehta,Anjal Prakash
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9351500659

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Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes by Aidan A. Cronin,Pradeep K. Mehta,Anjal Prakash Pdf

Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social, cultural and political involvement. This book aims to unpack the key elements of the WASH–gender nexus, examine these and recommend ways ahead for improved gender outcomes and WASH impact in India.

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213627334

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Gender, the Environment and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

This publication is the first Asia-Pacific report that comprehensively maps out the intersections between gender and environment at the levels of household, work, community and policy. It examines gender concerns in the spheres of food security, agriculture, energy, water, fisheries and forestry, and identifies strategic entry points for policy interventions. Based on a grounded study of the reality in the Asia-Pacific region, this report puts together good practices and policy lessons that could be capitalized by policymakers to advance the agenda of sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 924151289X

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Progress on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene by World Health Organization Pdf

"This report presents the first ever estimates of the population using 'safely managed' drinking water and sanitation services - meaning drinking water free from contamination that is available at home when needed, and toilets whereby excreta are treated and disposed of safely. It also documents progress towards ending open defecation and achieving universal access to basic services. The report identifies a number of critical data gaps that will need to be addressed in order to enable systematic monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets and to realize the commitment to 'leave no one behind'."--Publisher's description.

Author : WWAP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231003097

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The United Nations world water development report 2019 by WWAP Pdf

Access to water and sanitation is internationally recognized human right. Yet more than t wo billion people lack even the most basic of services. The latest United Nations World Water Development Report, Leaving No One Behind, explores the symptoms of exclusion and investigates ways to overcome inequalities.

Author : Kate Grantham,Gillian Dowie,Arjan de Haan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000340341

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Women's Economic Empowerment by Kate Grantham,Gillian Dowie,Arjan de Haan Pdf

This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women’s care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.

Author : Human Sciences Research Council
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0796920532

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Sexual Abuse of Young Children in Southern Africa by Human Sciences Research Council Pdf

With contributions from leading legal and policy researchers, clinical practitioners and child development specialists in southern Africa, this volume is an invitation to reflect on the many-sided nature of sexual abuse of young children. Many of the contributors propose effective ways to prevent abuse or improve care and services for the many affected children and their families. The book is in five parts. The opening section confronts the realities of sexual abuse of pre-pubertal children and the way abuse is represented in the press. The second section discusses the individual and socio-cultural causes of child sexual abuse. Section three covers legal and policy responses to the problem, while the fourth section presents a series of accounts of interventions on behalf of abused children drawn from South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The book concludes with some critical reflections on research in this area.