Advancing New Pathways for Sustainable Deployment of Agricultural Ground Water With Gender-Sensitive Data Sharing

Abstract

At the basin level, watershed resources (water, land, and ecosystem services) are often managed in “silos,” whereby gender-sensitive data and analytics are employed by different stakeholders without regard to existence of similar systems in other parts of the same sub-catchment. These cases create missed opportunities and insights for harnessing better innovative water interventions from baseline scenarios by examining the relevant frameworks, protocols, and tools for data sharing as well as the means of disaggregating water and climate change data into gender-sensitive formats transferable to similar sub-catchments. Innovative water solutions would enable optimal water services provision and financing without farmers depending wholly on external organizations to provide solutions to their financial challenges through taking part in technological development of viable water infrastructure.