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Photo: David Brazier/IWMI www.iwmi.org Water for a food-secure world Barbara van Koppen Concrete Actions: Gender, Water and Food Security Stockholm Water Week 2012 An integrated approach to the AMCOW gender strategy: productive/multiple water uses

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Presentation made by Barbara van Koppen, Rural Sociologist & Gender Expert at IWMI, World Water Week, August 26-31, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden

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Water for a food-secure world

Barbara van Koppen

Concrete Actions: Gender, Water and Food Security

Stockholm Water Week 2012

An integrated approach to the AMCOW gender strategy: productive/multiple water uses

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Policy formulated

and implemented

Human and financial

resources mobilized

Project approaches at all levels

gender sensitiveStrategic

knowledge produced, shared and

applied

Human and institutional

capacity at all levels

developed

Cooperation and

coordination strengthened

M&E,targets & indicators

Targets &indicators for AMCOW’sgender equality in water

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Defining ‘gender equality in water’

• Equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities in economic, social, cultural and political aspects of water development and management

• Equal valuing of gender similarities and differences (risk of sexual assaults, domestic chores, etc)

• Indicators towards equality: assess gender gaps and set ambitious, time-bound indicators for closing the gaps

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Unpacking ‘gender equality in water’a) water: a special resource

– water uses require different quantities/qualities– domestic uses are universal; productive uses are

context-specific– water is one, and not necessarily the limiting input – water storage and conveyance (labor,

technologies) is costly

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Unpacking ‘gender equality in water’: b) users and professionals

As water users: multiple uses for multiple livelihood benefits• As target group or customers of public investments• As investors in own private technologies

As public and private water professionals:• As public service providers, resource managers and policy

makers• As parastatal and private water business women/men

! Complex relationships between these two categories !

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a enterprise

culture

other

domesticdrinking

Equal control over water resources

Socio-economic, political gender

equality in all classes

production

participation

leadership

Equal control over water

technologies

Equal water uses

Gendered water needs and potentials

income

brick

s, cr

afts

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Land, credit,

marketsSkills, safety sanitation

time

access to resources

crops,

livesto

ck,

fish

health

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Indicators for users’ livelihoods: beyond the domestic-productive divide

1. Alleviate women’s/girls’ domestic chores as a priority across the water sector

2. Also recognize women as producers with context-specific productive water needs across the water sector; both as female heads of households and as spouses in family-based production.

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Indicators for users’ livelihoods: MUS to homesteads: a universal human right?

50-100 lpcd; 5 lpcd safe‘most MDG per drop’

healthtime

resilient food and income….

..from livestock..from fish

..from enterprise

..from crops

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Indicators for water usesExample village water users counts

Water sources

Technology(Number/

sites)

Number of beneficiaries by gender and vulnerability status

Surface streams

Direct use 70 poor women domestic 20 poor men cattle

1 Dam 10 less poor men irrigators5 less poor women irrigators5 less poor men cattle dry season

3 Fishpond 5 less poor men

1 Irrigation 20 poor and 5 less poor men irrigators

Groundwater

5 Shallow wells

30 poor women

3 Boreholes 25 less poor womenCommunity-garden

Rain water harvesting

15 households for multiple uses

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Indicators for water uses-PLUS

• PLUS: equal opportunities to make beneficial use of water– Hygiene education, also for men– Safety/privacy in water transport and sanitation – Secure land tenure (homesteads, fields)– Access to production factors: Inputs, capital, credits, extension,

skills, markets, electricity connections, etc. Distinguish: individuals, female heads of households, and spouses in intra-household production relations (e.g. joint titling)

– ETC

• Requires strategic partnerships of water sector with other initiatives !

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Indicators for control over technologies: as target group of public investments (any uses)

Equality in planning: • needs assessment and prioritization, • technology choice, siting and/or land re-allocation, compensation in

displacement • training on technical know-how, construction employment and pay• operation, maintenance, and monitoring; training

Equality in Water User Associations membership and leadership• Context specific quota?

– > 50% for domestic uses and women-managed productive uses; – < 50% for male-dominated productive uses.

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Indicators for control over technologies: as investors in own technologies

• Investing in own collective technologies: – Inclusion in community planning, construction, operation and

maintenance institutions for self-supply

• Investing in private technologies: – Equal access to technologies (land tenure security, information,

technical training, capital, etc)

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Indicators for control over technologies as professionals

• As public service providers, policy makers, and private water business women/men– Equality in education, training and job opportunities at all levels

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Indicators for control over water resources

As users• Water resources allocation

– equal distribution of water – non-discrimination in plural water laws (e.g. customary water

law; permits vested in individuals or jointly in spouses)

• Protection against pollution• Protection against floods

As professionals• Equal participation in national and basin management

organizations from local to transboundary level

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