LAKE VICTORIA REGION WATER AND SANITATION INITIATIVE LVWATSAN CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP 1618 Octobe

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LAKE VICTORIA REGION WATER AND SANITATION
INITIATIVE (LVWATSAN)CAPACITY BUILDING
WORKSHOP16-18 October 2006 Nairobi

• Gender and Water Alliance
• Joke Muylwijk and
• Prabha Khosla
• www.genderandwater.org

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Gender in Development- Gender and Diversity-
Development is change- Contextual
differences- Gender Ideology- No
blueprints- Power relations, needs, skills
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Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity
Building for LVWATSAN1. Why is gender a
critical aspect of water and sanitation and how
does it help towards achieving the MDG 7, target
10?- water is womens responsibility, more than
for men- sanitation is matter of life and death
for women and small children, more than for men
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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

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Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity
Building for LVWATSAN3. How do we reduce gender
violence and insecurity associated with water
provision and access to sanitation facilities?-
Acknowledge womens knowledge and work in
training at all levels- Involve women for
practical improvements, different everywhere-
Better and safer facilities decreases violence
and increases dignity
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Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity
Building for LVWATSAN4. 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
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Questions about Gender Mainstreaming in Capacity
Building for LVWATSAN5. 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- dont
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