GWA News
News from the Gender and Water Alliance.
Uganda: water vendors versus women water users
07 May 10
One Sunday afternoon, Pauline is attending her shop set out on a wooden rack. She sells fruits, vegetables, dried fish, batteries, charcoal and everything else a normal household in this small town in Western Uganda would need daily. A few metres away, a water standpost can be seen, with three taps and a platform looking suspiciously dry.
Gender and Water Alliance: we have a teaspoon to empty the Atlantic
07 May 10
Ten years ago, during the second World Water Forum in The Hague more than a hundred water professionals came together to institutionalise the Gender and Water Alliance. Since then a lot of awareness has been raised on the gender aspects of water management through capacity building, advocacy, publications, dissemination, information sharing and pilot studies, by which we can state that many people have learned and adapted their attitude.
From the GWA Secretariat
06 Nov 09
One of the most significant events in 2009 for the Gender and Water Alliance was the Workshop and Study Tour on Gender, Water, Sanitation and Good Governance, for a group of dignitaries from Nigeria.
Lessons from South Africa: exploring the critical link between rural women and water resource management
06 Nov 09
In the picture I had of myself, I was always in the kitchen and looking after the children. Even though I am on the water management institution I did not see myself as a leader. Now I do.” (Florence Mavhimbi, participant in the Limpopo region)
Bolivia: Mentoring helped win support for including a gender perspective into community development guidelines
06 Nov 09
The government of Bolivia uses a social strategy for its water and sanitation projects with the objective of developing a basis for sustainable services.
From the GWA Secretariat
12 May 09
The broad theme of Gender and Water includes various subjects which become ever more important. They include: water and the food crisis, climate change and conflict situations and the lack of women water professionals at all levels.
Sad death of an honoured member
12 May 09
Just after our return from the World Water Forum in Istanbul the Gender and Water Alliance was informed of the death of our very honoured member, Dr. Fadia Daibes Murad of Palestine, killed on her way home from work in a car crash, in which seven other people were injured.
Cartoon booklets on gender and water speak to people all over the world
12 May 09
“To be part of this struggle to inform the world of the need to take care of water, including the issue of gender, is very important. For me, therefore it was an honour to be commissioned to do this work to prepare these booklets that will be distributed around the world,” says Ziraldo Alves Pinto. He is the Brazilian artist who the Gender and Water Alliance approached to develop four booklets about gender and water, specifically targeted at school children and illiterate people
Bridging gender divides in water at the Fifth World Water Forum
12 May 09
More than 80 members of the Gender and Water Alliance from across the globe joined up in Istanbul in March this year, at the 5th World Water Forum, in an effort to mainstream gender equity issues in the discussions and emerging recommendations.
From the GWA Secretariat
06 Nov 08
The Gender and Water Alliance has come to an important point in its existence. Of the five years of our second phase we have now completed three. This is a good time to reflect on what we have learnt and how we will apply this.
