less than
of agricultural
in many countriesin Northern Africa
and Western Asia
are women
5%holders
an average ofcompriseWomen
43% of t
he
agriculturallabour in developing countriesforce
47% of t
he
labour is carried out
by women
According to FAO
intake
30%
is spent just on
fetching water
daily
in ruralIndia
more than
of a womens’
andAfrica
girls’ schoolincreased
UP TOattendance
12%
in ghanaa 15-minutereductionin water
time
When data showedthat only
in the departmentof
in uganda affirmative action was taken to improve
in the water department
BY 30% IN 5 YEARS
of water development
%
One 2012estimatesuggests that
15 the walking timeto a water source
could increaseunder-five child
survival
minutes off
WATER GOVERNANCE
Only 16% of national water resource plans mention women as key stakeholders or
primary participants in climate adaptation.
SAFE DRINKING WATER
WATER for AGRICULTURE
EDUCATION
Project for gender sensitive water monitoring, assessment and reporting
In Nepal when women’sparticipation in decision-makingincreased to 41% in the waterand sanitation project
INVOLVEDWOMEN
trained
in Sri Lanka, where women in 38% of 145 fishery community based Organizations (CBOs) trained in leadership skills and
WOMEN were
THEN
THEN
THEN
THEN
women and girls would feel more safeand the project would becomemore sustainable
PARTICIPATEDWOMEN
in IRRIGATION
in villages in South Africa, Tanzania and Sri Lanka
productivity, equityand cost recovery would improve
of community-based organizationswould increase
WOMENOWNED ASSETS
In Burkina Faso, when women had titled plots and access to irrigation.
the overall productivityof agriculture would rise
45.2% of countriesdo not produceany gender statistics related to water
The percentage of countriesproducing sex-disaggregated data on access to clean water is only 37%
are oriented at monitoringthe results of Post-2015 Agenda and SDGs
report evidence of gender equality results and orient policy actions
will allow comparison and measureprogress through time at a global level
To address the considerable data gap on gender and water issues at
the global level, WWAP has launched the project for
gender-sensitive water monitoring, assessment and reporting, which
consists of four phases:
Phase 1:
Production of the toolkit for gender sensitive water monitoring.
This contains a list of high-priority indicators, a methodology for collecting
sex-disaggregated data, a guideline for data gathering in the field and a questionnaire for practitioners to
collect sex- disaggregated data.
Phase 2:
The toolkit will be testedin selected pilot areas
in different regionsof the world,
in cooperation withnational authorities,
research institutes and international organizations.
Phase 3:
The indicators and methodologywill be validated againstthe results from phase 2,and after the evaluationthe final results will
be widely disseminated.
Phase 4:Capacity building will be implemented by a series of training modules specifically
tailored for multiple users, such as technical staff of developing agencies, water-experts of national institutions,
development practitioners.
@UNWWAPUNESCO
www.tinyurl.com/wwapgender
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