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Gender

IRC promotes a gender approach to water and sanitation projects and programmes through its information resources, advocacy work, publications, and projects with partners. Through active participation in international efforts IRC staff and partners also help to raise awareness of gender issues in the sector

Gender

In this TOP, we revisit some of the arguments that have led to the international pressure for gender equity in human and social development.

Read more or download TOP10_Gender_07.pdf (530 kB)

Gender and Water Alliance

Through the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) programme, member organisations strive to improve the practice of gender mainstreaming in the work done by themselves and their partners.

Gender and Equity

If water and sanitation projects and programmes are to be sustainable, equitable and effective, they must be gender-balanced and provide access for all.

Gender disaggregated data on water and sanitation

An expert meeting on gender disaggregated data in the watsan sector, in which IRC's Christine Sijbesma participated, was held in December 2008. This meeting had several main goals, namely to take stock of gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation at global and regional levels, to identify obstacles to gender-disaggregated data capacity and collection and to identify data needs and priorities. Finally, recommendations were made on policies, practices and priorities to improve the state of gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation. The final report of this meeting is available in the PDF.

0903 EGM Report.pdf (1.01 MB)

A gender approach

IRC promotes a gender approach to water and sanitation projects and programmes through its information resources, advocacy work, publications and projects with partners. Through active participation in international efforts, IRC staff and partners also help to raise awareness of gender issues in the sector. IRC helped set up the Gender and Water Alliance.

6. Gender mainstreaming in practice

Gender mainstreaming in practice

Summary paper on gender, water and sanitation

This summary paper gives a short overview of why gender-disaggregated data for water and sanitation are needed. It also states that data gathering needs to be improved and lists a number of recommendations on how to move forward.

GenderDataSanitation_Sum.pdf (2.89 MB)

Gender and equity in water and sanitation: 10 lessons from project experiences

'Gender spectacles' are needed to obtain successful project results, this is one of the main conclusions of Christine Sijbema's presentation for the Soroptimists go for Water conference in July 2009. Much evidence exists that the more balanced projects are on gender and for the poor, the better sustained the results are. More information is available in the presentation.

Gender equity in water and sanitation projects (PPTminimizer).ppt (474 kB)