[WA-News] Invitation to Women in Action members to participate in gender & water policy analysis

Thu Apr 18 06:35:29 BST 2002

Dear Women in Action in West Africa

This is perhaps an interesting invitation to share with your subscribers?

Kind regards,

Christine van Wijk

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Dear colleague

In this message you will find:
* Invitation to participate in an interesting Gender and Water
Alliance project
* Format to be used
* Example 
* Clarification on analysis

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INVITATION

In 2002-2004, the Gender and Water Alliance will publish three reports
on gender and water/sanitation to advocate that governments make the
water sector more effective and socially equitable. 

The first report will give an overview and analysis of gender
perspectives in country policies, legal and institutional frameworks. It
will be published in December 2002 and presented at the World Water
Forum in Tokyo in March 2003. IRC, International Water and Sanitation
Centre is coordinating the part on drinking water supply and sanitation.

You can join in this activity by analyzing one or more of your country's
(or any other country's) official documents on the roles, duties and
rights of women, or women and men. The analysis consists of filling in a
list of seven characteristics in a pre-designed format and sending this
to IRC together with the full title of the document and copies (either
hard copies or typed into e-mail) of the pages on which you have based
your analysis. The documents should be the latest (most recent) policy
documents. If the texts are not in English, French or Spanish, a
translation has also to be sent. To avoid overlap, every participant
should first send the name of the country and the title of the document
to the IRC coordinator, Ingeborg Krukkert, krukkert at irc.nl and not
prepare an analysis before clearance has been received. 

In IRC, each contribution will be peer reviewed and used for a state of
the art summary and analysis of the situation.

In exchange, for each contribution IRC will send you any combination of
its publications on water, sanitation and hygiene to a total value of US
$ 50 (Euro 57) free of charge. This includes postage by surface mail and
a discount of 40%. IRC's complete publications list is downloadable as
PDF file from http://www.irc.nl/pdf.php?file=publ/pubcat.pdf or you can
look for IRC publications on certain topics at
http://www.irc.nl/products/publications/index.html

THE PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION IS MARCH 1 TO MAY 1, 2002.

A more detailed description of the sources, and nature, of information
to be analyzed, as well as the definitions used and a copy of the text
used for the example will be sent to individual participants.

We hope that many of you will feel inspired to join in this activity and
look forward to hearing from you.

For the 3 AR project under WEDC, on behalf of the Gender Water Alliance,

Ingeborg Krukkert
E-mail: krukkert at irc.nl; Tel.: +31 (0)15 219 29 85

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FORMAT TO BE USED TO CLASSIFY DOCUMENTS: 
9 fields to be filled in and a copy of the text you have used for your
analysis:

1) Name of the country:
2) Full title of document: please give name of author(s), year,
full title, series or edition if applicable, place and country of
publisher, name of publisher.
3) Type of sector: domestic water supply, sanitation, Women in
Development (WID), ... please specify
4) Level of policy: national, state, program, ... please specify
5) Type of document: policy, legal, institutional
6) Organisation: name of organisation that issued the policy
7) Status of policy: under development, authorized, ... please
specify
8) Nature of policy: choose the ones you find applicable: welfare
WID, welfare Gender and Development (GAD), anti-poverty WID,
anti-poverty GAD, efficiency/effectiveness WID, efficiency/effectiveness
GAD, gender equity, gender and social equity.
9) Non-stereotyped roles: for men, for women, please specify

Filled in by: please give your name, whether female or male, e-mail
address), your function, name of your organization, place and country of
your organization.

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EXAMPLE OF FORMAT:

1) NAME OF THE COUNTRY: India
2) TITLE OF DOCUMENT: Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission. (2000).
Guidelines for implementation of rural water supply programme. (second
revised edition). New Delhi, India. Government of India, Ministry of
Rural Development, Department of Drinking Water Supply.
3) TYPE OF SECTOR: Rural water supply
4) LEVEL OF POLICY: National policy
5) TYPE OF DOCUMENT: Policy document
6) ORGANISATION: Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Government of
India, Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Drinking Water
Supply
7) STATUS OF POLICY: Authorized
8) NATURE OF POLICY: efficiency/effectiveness WID (see below for
clarification)
9) NON-STEREOTYPED ROLES: technical training and work for women

Filled in by: Christine van Wijk, (wijk at irc.nl), female, senior programme staff,
IRC, International Water and Sanitation Centre. Delft, The Netherlands.

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CLARIFICATION ON ANALYSIS OF NATURE OF POLICY

* The text mentions only the roles of women. This means a WID
approach is used, and not a gender approach, which would look at women's
roles, work and influence in relation to men's. 
* The emphasis is on BETTER QUALITY PROJECTS (and so more
EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS) from women's participation, especially in
maintenance and quality of construction. 
* While training and work as mechanics (mistries) for women is a
new gender role, caretaking of water points is a traditional women's
task. It would be non-stereotyped if men helped women to take care of
hygiene at water points. 
* Gender equity issues (the women will do extra work in
maintenance and caretaking, while the men will not do this or compensate
them) are not addressed.
* A greater influence from women may improve their gender
positions, but this is not an explicit goal.
* Issues of social differences between women (= social equity) are
not addressed. In one case, a plea for prominent women to be represented
on committees. Since the meaning of prominent is not defined, they may
well belong to the local elite and have different interests from poor
women.

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Ingeborg Krukkert
Information specialist
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
P.O. Box 2869
2601 CW Delft, The Netherlands
tel.: +31-15-219 29 85, fax: +31-15-219 09 55
E-mail: krukkert at irc.nl
Internet: http://www.irc.nl

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