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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van

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“…Nonetheless, numerous studies have found that women are less likely than men to access both large-and small-scale irrigation infrastructure and technologies. In large-scale farmer-led irrigation schemes, women's implicit and explicit exclusion from scheme management decisions and irrigated land allocation limit their access to water (Zwarteveen 1997;Meinzen-Dick and Zwarteveen 1998;van Koppen 1998). Moreover, relatively less attention has been paid to the gender aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies.…”

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What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania

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Diverse agricultural technologies are promoted to increase yields and incomes, save time, improve food and nutritional security, and even empower women. Yet a gender gap in technology adoption remains for many agricultural technologies, even for those that are promoted for women. This paper complements the literature on gender and technology adoption, which largely focuses on reasons for low rates of female technology adoption, by shifting attention to what happens within a household after it adopts a technology. Understanding the expected benefits and costs of adoption, from the perspective of women users in households with adult males, can help explain observed technology adoption rates and why technology adoption is often not sustained in the longer term. Drawing on qualitative data from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper develops a framework for examining the intrahousehold distribution of benefits from technology adoption, focusing on small-scale irrigation technologies. The framework contributes to the conceptual and empirical exploration of joint control over technology by men and women in the same household. Efforts to promote technology adoption for agricultural development and women's empowerment would benefit from an understanding of intrahousehold control over technology to avoid interpreting technology adoption as an end in and of itself.

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“…Gender, along with other social identities, is a critical determinant and characteristic of water-society relationships. Gender shapes inter alia who benefits and who loses from water resource development (Carney, 1993;van Koppen, 1998) or from water privatisation (Harris, 2008) as well as one's vulnerability to water-related disasters (Enarson & Fordham, 2001). Yet over a long period, gender was considered irrelevant to water management in most policy spheres.…”

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Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal

Shrestha¹,

Clément

2019

Water Policy

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Despite decades of gender mainstreaming in the water sector, a wide gap between policy commitments and outcomes remains. This study aims at offering a fresh perspective on such policy gaps, by analysing how gendered discourses, institutions and professional culture contribute to policy gaps. We rely on a conceptual framework originally developed for analysing strategic change, which is used to analyse gender in the public water sector in Nepal. Our analysis relies on a review of national water policies and a series of semi-structured interviews with male and female water professionals from several public agencies. Our findings evidence how dominant discourses, formal rules and professional culture intersect to support and reproduce hegemonic masculine attitudes and practices of water professionals. Such attitudes and practices in turn favour a technocratic implementation of policy measures. We argue that gender equality policy initiatives in the water sector have overly focused on local level formal institutions and have not adequately considered the effects of masculine discourses, norms and culture to be effective in making progress towards gender equity. We conclude with policy recommendations.

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“…In addition, irrigation has often been described as an important focus needed for further agricultural development in developing countries, though studies indicate that in general there is more net economic benefit from small-scale rather than large-scale irrigation development [1]. Increasingly, from the 1980s onwards, there has been research conducted on the merits of participatory irrigation management [2,3], and the literature has also sought to highlight the issues of women's participation in irrigation management in particular [4][5][6][7].…”

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“…In the current world, the involvement of women and their values and opinions is seen as important [11]. This covers multiple domains and is progressively creeping into masculine areas of influence, like agriculture [7,8]. However, despite the perceived nobility of inclusion, its perceived benefits on the part of those 'not being included' is not always clear cut [7].…”

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“…This covers multiple domains and is progressively creeping into masculine areas of influence, like agriculture [7,8]. However, despite the perceived nobility of inclusion, its perceived benefits on the part of those 'not being included' is not always clear cut [7]. More specifically, there is a presumption that those excluded hold several views, such as: (a) That 'things' would be better if the excluded had a voice, (b) the excluded see the same benefits of the 'included' and want to share the spoils, and (c) the included and excluded hold similar values and perceptions.…”

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Mainstreaming Gender into Irrigation: Experiences from Pakistan

Memon

Cooper

Wheeler

2019

Water

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The influence of gender in participatory irrigation management reforms has been the subject of significant research in the past. Whilst there is some understanding of what hinders women and marginalized groups from participating in irrigation management, there is limited understanding of how male and female farmers vary in their perceptions on the effectiveness of participation in irrigation affairs. There is also limited understanding around the interaction on gender and the overall success of participatory irrigation management programs. Based on the information obtained from 128 households surveyed through separate male and female questionnaires in Pakistan in 2018 (Sindh and Punjab provinces), we studied the country’s experience in engaging gender into its participatory irrigation management program. We found there was a significant difference in participatory irrigation management perceptions across both gender and locational jurisdiction. Overall, women generally perceive the performance and impact of farmer organizations to be significantly less effective than men. Our study emphasizes the importance of putting findings in a historical context to inform the theory, policy, and practice of mainstreaming gender into irrigation management.

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What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania

What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania

Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal

Mainstreaming Gender into Irrigation: Experiences from Pakistan

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