Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

Fauconnier, Isabelle; Jenniskens, Annemiek; Perry, Page

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2018.22.en

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“…Substantive participation goes beyond nominal or passive participation towards sustained and active engagement (Das, 2014). Governance involves working within existing institutional structures to create more civic space for women and marginalized groups to engage in decision making on matters that affect their interests (Fauconnier et al, 2018;Imburgia, 2019;Sehring et al, 2022). Support may be provided to address the informal and formal barriers to participation within civic spaces such as committees, forums, platforms or within organizations (Das, 2014).…”

Section: Gender-transformative (Transformative Equality)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender equality approaches in water, sanitation, and hygiene programs: Towards gender-transformative practice

MacArthur

Carrard

Mott³

et al. 2023

Front. Water

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The recent (re-)emergence of gender-transformative approaches in the development sector has focused on transforming the gender norms, dynamics, and structures which perpetuate inequalities. Yet, the application of gender-transformative approaches within water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programing remains nascent as compared with other sectors. Adopting a feminist sensemaking approach drawing on literature and practice, this inquiry sought to document and critically reflect on the conceptualization and innovation of gender-transformative thinking in the Australian Government's Water for Women Fund. Through three sensemaking workshops and associated analysis, participants developed a conceptual framework and set of illustrative case examples to support WASH practitioners to integrate strengthened gender-transformative practice. The multi-layered framework contains varied entry points to support multi-disciplinary WASH teams integrating gender equality, as skills and resources permit. Initiatives can be categorized as insensitive, sensitive, responsive or transformative, and prompted by five common motivators (welfare, efficiency, equity, empowerment, and transformative requality). The framework has at its foundation two diverging tendencies: toward instrumental gender potential and toward transformative gender potential. The article draws on historical and recent WASH literature to illustrate the conceptual framework in relation to: (i) community mobilization, (ii) governance, service provision, and oversight, and (iii) enterprise development. The illustrative examples provide practical guidance for WASH practitioners integrating gendered thinking into programs, projects, and policies. We offer a working definition for gender-transformative WASH and reflect on how the acknowledgment, consideration, and transformation of gender inequalities can lead to simultaneously strengthened WASH outcomes and improved gender equality.

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Section: Gender-transformative (Transformative Equality)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender equality approaches in water, sanitation, and hygiene programs: Towards gender-transformative practice

MacArthur

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Mott³

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Front. Water

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“…A lot of concern was expressed by the womenfolk towards their environment and the rising issues, but they were less likely to involve in safety matters towards their ecology (Ramstetter & Habersack, 2020). The females played a greater role to save and protect their surroundings more than males (Fauconnier et al, 2018). Kuo et al (2018) described that gender variance among males and females in homes and at working areas is due to the fact of individual preferences, male and female's household residents exhibited changed capabilities to do domestic chores and labour, and that such variances helped to adopt different tasks and that penchant to do domestic and outside working is the freewill of females.…”

Section: Gender Water Conservation and Householdsmentioning

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The gender difference in behaviour and intentions of households toward water saving practices in Katchi Abadis of Lahore, Pakistan

Malik

Mahmood

2021

J. Humanit. Soc. Manag. Sci.

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Water resources sustainability and conservation are crucial to controlling water scarcity in the world. This research examines the gendered perception of households in 12 Katchi Abadis of Lahore to conserve water by focusing on their habits, attitude, intention, norms, and behaviour. This is a qualitative research design with in-depth interviews as a method. Respondents were selected by adopting the purposive sampling technique. The debate revolves around the question: which one among men and women in the slum, will be responsible to show proper water managing intentions and behaviour? Is there any difference among men and women in slums on water-saving attitude, norms, intention, and behaviour? 24 face-to-face semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with youths, adults, and elderly males and females. Thematic analysis was used for analysis. It was revealed that people in homes acknowledged the worth of water, but poverty, unemployment, and government unresponsive behaviour caused hindrance to efforts to save water. There is a long list of hurdles that retards the process to conserve water. This research recommended conducting studies on the practices of water in households with actual measurements, not only for self-reported data, but it should also assess, and observe actions of individuals towards the environment.

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Gender Mainstreaming and the Nexus

Pandey,

Midha

2024

Water Security in a New World

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Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

Cited by 9 publications

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Gender equality approaches in water, sanitation, and hygiene programs: Towards gender-transformative practice

Gender equality approaches in water, sanitation, and hygiene programs: Towards gender-transformative practice

The gender difference in behaviour and intentions of households toward water saving practices in Katchi Abadis of Lahore, Pakistan

Gender Mainstreaming and the Nexus

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