Water For Poor Women

Author : Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland
Publisher : Working in Gender & Developmen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Anne Hellum,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,B. C. P. van Koppen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1779222793

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Water is Life by Anne Hellum,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,B. C. P. van Koppen Pdf

Author : Anne Coles,Tina Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183221

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Gender, Water and Development by Anne Coles,Tina Wallace Pdf

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.

Author : Christine van Wijk-Sijbesma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sanitation
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067915144

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Gender in Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation by Christine van Wijk-Sijbesma Pdf

Herziene en bijgewerkte versie van 'Participation of women in water supply and sanitation: roles and realities' (1985). Onderzocht wordt de relatie tussen gender en duurzaam waterbeheer en de toepassing van gender in de drinkwater- en zuiveringssector en op hygiënisch gebied. Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van de ontwikkelingen in de periode 1980-1997.

Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004537

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Taking Stock of Progress Towards Gender Equality in the Water Domain by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme Pdf

Author : Christine van Wijk-Sijbesma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UIUC:30112121414475

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Participation of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation by Christine van Wijk-Sijbesma Pdf

Literature survey of the participation of rural women in water supply and sanitation (community development) in developing countries - covers women's traditional involvement in maintenance and management of water supplies, their current role in planning and implementation of development projects for improving water supply and sanitation, socio- economic and health benefits from the projects, etc.; includes an annotated bibliography. Photographs, references, statistical tables.

Author : Amanda M. Klasing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 1623133637

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Make it Safe by Amanda M. Klasing Pdf

"The report, 'Make It Safe: Canada's Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis,' documents the impacts of serious and prolonged drinking water and sanitation problems for thousands of indigenous people--known as "First Nations"--living on reserves. It assesses why there are problems with safe water and sanitation on reserves, including a lack of binding water quality regulations, erratic and insufficient funding, faulty or sub-standard infrastructure, and degraded source waters. The federal government's own audits over two decades show a pattern of overpromising and underperforming on water and sanitation for reserves"--Publisher's description.

Author : Caroline Sweetman,Louise Medland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Connor, Richard
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poor women
ISBN : 0739175270

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Water for Poor Women by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed Pdf

Water for Poor Women: Quest for an Alternative Paradigm, by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed, develops an alternative governance paradigm to ensure poor women's water security through their participation in the governance process. This study assesses the effects of governance on water di...

Author : I.H. Olcay Ünver,Rajiv K. Gupta,Aysegul Kibaroglu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461504238

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Water Development and Poverty Reduction by I.H. Olcay Ünver,Rajiv K. Gupta,Aysegul Kibaroglu Pdf

In the book's four Parts, the interdisciplinary approach to many issues contributes to the relationship between water and poverty. Part I includes articles on the conceptual and methodological issues concerning poverty reduction through water resources development. It also offers analysis of quantitative measurements of poverty reduction, including some approaches for creating a Water Poverty Index. Part II considers the institutional frameworks for management of water and poverty reduction. Topics range from community-based decision making to international leadership. Part III encompasses discussions on participatory irrigation management and the privatization of urban water supplies and sewerage and the link to poverty. Case studies from India, Turkey, and Jordan make up Part IV. The studies present diverse water management and development practices for poverty reduction, including realistic pricing and effective irrigation practices, the use of water as an engine for sustainable development, small and large scale strategies for reducing the risks and uncertainties in water availability and food security, the economic value of improved water supplies, and the positive impact of small-scale development projects.

Author : Van Koppen, Barbara,Namara, Regassa,Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Water-supply, Agricultural
ISBN : 9789290906155

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Reducing Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Water Management by Van Koppen, Barbara,Namara, Regassa,Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina Pdf

The overall goal of the Collaborative Program on ‘Investments in Agricultural Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa’ is to contribute to broad-based sustainable poverty reduction and smallholder agricultural growth. The component on ‘Poverty considerations in investments in agricultural water management’ focuses in more detail on poverty and gender dimensions. It consists of two parts. The first part is thematic and elaborates poverty and gender issues emerging from the literature that complement the other components of the Collaborative Program. Part two is empirical. Acknowledging the lack of empirical data on poverty impacts of investments in agricultural water management, the Collaborative Program initiated case studies throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight case studies on ‘Agricultural Water Development for Poverty Reduction in Eastern and Southern Africa’, for which the field research was conducted in 2003/2004, were supported by IFAD (Peacock,2005). Further, the African Development Bank supported three case studies in West Africa in 2004, two by Kamara et al. (2004), and one by Babatunde Omilola (2005). Part two synthesizes the empirical findings of these case studies.

Author : Anne Hellum,Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781779222879

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Water is Life by Anne Hellum,Patricia Kameri-Mbote Pdf

This book approached water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue. Empirical case studies from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how coexisting international, national and local regulations of water and sanitation respond to the ways in which different groups of rural and urban women gain access to water for personal, domestic and livelihood purposes. The authors, who are lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists, explore how women cope in contexts where they lack secure rights, and participation in water governance institutions, formal and informal. The research shows how women - as producers of family food - rely on water from multiple sources that are governed by community based norms and institutions which recognise the right to water for livelihood. How these common pool water resources - due to protection gaps in both international and national law - are threatened by large-scale development and commercialisation initiatives, facilitated through national permit systems, is a key concern. The studies demonstrate that existing water governance structures lack mechanisms which make them accountable to poor and vulnerable water users on the ground, most importantly women. The findings thus underscore the need to intensify measures to hold states accountable, not just in water services provision, but in assuring the basic human right to clean drinking water and sanitation; and also to protect water for livelihoods.

Author : Lyla Mehta,Theib Oweis,Claudia Ringler,Barbara Schreiner,Shiney Varghese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351747615

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Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice by Lyla Mehta,Theib Oweis,Claudia Ringler,Barbara Schreiner,Shiney Varghese Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally appropriate ways to address complex water management and governance challenges from the local to global levels against a backdrop of growing uncertainties. The authors challenge mainstream supply-oriented and neo-Malthusian visions that argue for the need to increase the land area under irrigation in order to feed the world’s growing population. Instead, they argue for a reframing of the debate concerning production processes, waste, food consumption and dietary patterns whilst proposing alternative strategies to improve water and land productivity, putting the interests of marginalized and disenfranchized groups upfront. The book highlights how accessing water for FSN can be challenging for small-holders, vulnerable and marginalized women and men, and how water allocation systems and reform processes can negatively affect local people’s informal rights. The book argues for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food and is original in making a case for strengthening the relationship between the human rights to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men. It will be of great interest to practitioners, students and researchers working on water and food issues.

Author : John R. Wagner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857459671

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The Social Life of Water by John R. Wagner Pdf

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.