gender indicators for women’s empowerment strategies in water and food security by alice m....
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Presentation made by Dr Alice M. Bouman-Dentener , President of the Woman for Water Partnership, World Water Week, August 26-31, 2012, Stockholm, SwedenTRANSCRIPT
Gender indicatorsfor women’s empowerment strategies
in water and food security
Drs. Alice M. Bouman-DentenerPresident Women for Water Partnership
Indicators are (CIDA 1997):
Criteria are measures against which changes can be assessed.
They may be pointers, facts, numbers, opinions or perceptions –
used to signify changes in specific conditions or progress towards particular objectives.
Presentation outline:
1.Women for Water Partnership:• Who are we?• What conditions we want to change?• Objectives
2.AMCOW gender mainstreaming strategy:• How does WfWP relate to strategy?• What is our specific niche in
implementing the strategy?• Examples of our African members
3.Indicators to measure women’s empowerment strategies in water & food security
Who we are
Global Women’s Civil Society Network
24 member organisations 90 countries
Women’s Major Groupof UNCED Agenda 21
uniting to achieve access to water and adequate sanitation for all
Water and women’s empowerment:mutually supportive
Water empowers women
Empowered women become effective agents of change
Dublin principles for IWRM
2. Development & management of water should be based on a participatory approach, involving users, planners and policy makers at the lowest appropriate level.
3. Women play a central role in the supply, management and safeguarding of water.
Women supported aseffective Agents of Change?
How can AMCOW gender mainstreaming strategy help?
Aspects of AMCOW gender policy:
1.Institutional strengthening for gender mainstreaming2.Strengthen partnerships3.Enhance sensitization at all levels4.Recommended actions for implementation and achievements of AMCOW gender commitments
Institutional level
a. legal and policy frameworks
b. institutional mechanisms
There is a hole in the bucket!
Women: passive beneficiaries
to effective, empoweredpartners
Effective AMCOW strategy:
Implementation level
c. Strengthening civil society where implementation takes place
Of the total development budget 1%
goes to women’s organisations
Basic indicator:
How much money goes to women’s organizations
Pioneering impact measurement
of women’s empowerment in water and food security
Key success factorfor AMCOW
gender mainstreaming strategy
Involve the women’s Major Group as equal partners
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