Gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation

Year of publication: 2009

Seager, J. (ed.) (2009). Gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation : Expert Group Meeting, United Nations Headquarters, New York 2–3 December 2008. (UNW-DPC knowledge publication series ; no. 1). Bonn, Germany, UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), United Nations University. - 35 p.

This report presents the outcome of an Expert Group Meeting held in December 2008 to address the question of gender disaggregated data. The meeting was intended to support efforts to enhance gender equity in the water and sanitation sectors within the prevailing framework of the MDGs. The challenge and added value of the meeting was to explore ways to bridge the gap between conceptual or theoretical comprehensions of gender issues and everyday grassroots realities of differential access to and use of water and sanitation. The meeting had several specific goals in terms of assessing the state of global gender. Priorities for data were discussed and a comprehensive list of obstacles to collecting gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation and a common list of core data needs were de¬veloped. The report includes the main recommendations of the 26 experts on mainstreaming gender issues into water and sanitation policies. It also presents six main gendered indicators the experts propose should be incorporated into existing surveys and data collection efforts of governments and of key global-level data collection entities.

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Keywords

• Gender
• Monitoring & evaluation
• Sanitation
• Water supply