Guidelines for including Gender and Equity
IRC promotes a gender approach to water and sanitation projects and programmes through its information resources, advocacy work, publications and projects with partners. This section gives guidelines and approaches for mainstreaming gender in programmes.
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.
Equity and Demand-Responsive Programming Approaches
The concept of equity refers to sharing of benefits and responsibilities for water and sanitation facilities in a balanced way among different groups and different communities
Ten "Golden Rules" for a Gender Approach in Drinking Water and Sanitation Programmes
Here are ten practical golden rules for mainstreaming gender in drinking water and sanitation field programmes. (One water sector engineer has even baptised them the ten commandments!). They have been formulated by IRC in the mid 1990s together with male and female sector practitioners during training sessions on gender and have been validated in the 2002 E-conferences on Gender Mainstreaming of the Gender and Water Alliance.
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 (474.0 kB)
