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Gender indicatorsfor women’s empowerment strategies
in water and food security
Drs. Alice M. Bouman-DentenerPresident Women for Water Partnership
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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.
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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
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Who we are
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Global Women’s Civil Society Network
24 member organisations 90 countries
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Women’s Major Groupof UNCED Agenda 21
uniting to achieve access to water and adequate sanitation for all
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Water and women’s empowerment:mutually supportive
Water empowers women
Empowered women become effective agents of change
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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.
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Women supported aseffective Agents of Change?
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How can AMCOW gender mainstreaming strategy help?
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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
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Institutional level
a. legal and policy frameworks
b. institutional mechanisms
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There is a hole in the bucket!
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Women: passive beneficiaries
to effective, empoweredpartners
Effective AMCOW strategy:
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Implementation level
c. Strengthening civil society where implementation takes place
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Of the total development budget 1%
goes to women’s organisations
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Basic indicator:
How much money goes to women’s organizations
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Pioneering impact measurement
of women’s empowerment in water and food security
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Key success factorfor AMCOW
gender mainstreaming strategy
Involve the women’s Major Group as equal partners
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THANK YOU