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

[Teresa Valdés]

Dear Christine,

this is only for women in West Africa?

Bestes,

Teresa Valdés

christine van wijk wrote:

>  Dear Women in Action in West Africa This is perhaps an interesting
> invitation to share with your subscribers? Kind regards, Christine van
> Wijk ================ 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
>
> -----------------
>
> 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
>
> ---------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ---------------------
>
>
> 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.
>
> --------------------
>
> 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.
>
> --------------------------
> 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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