The Advisory Group on Gender Equality will assist WWAP in mainstreaming gender equality considerations in its activities and products, particularly the World Water Development Report. The Advisory Group will provide guidance and feedback on WWAP's gender mainstreaming strategy, as well as expertise and suggestions as needed. The Advisory Group will initially serve through the 4th phase of WWAP until the end of 2012.

1. WWAP Advisory Group on Gender Equality

2. The Advisory Group on Gender Equality will assist WWAP in
mainstreaming gender equality considerations in its activities
and products, in particular the World Water Development
Report (WWDR). It will provide guidance and feedback on the
design and implementation of the programme's gender
mainstreaming strategy, provide expertise, and suggest
actions as needed.
The Advisory Group on Gender Equality will initially serve
through the 4th phase of WWAP, until the end of 2012.

3. S. Gülser Corat is the Director of UNESCO's Division for Gender Equality
in the Office of the Director-General.
Before joining UNESCO in September 2004, she pursued a dual career
in the academe and international development.
Her academic work included research and teaching in the field of
political economy at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa
in Canada.
As an international development practitioner, she was a senior
international development advisor for various bilateral development
Ms Gülser Corat agencies (Canadian International Development Agency and the
International Development Research Center), for multi-lateral lending
institutions (the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank), UN
agencies (UNDP and UNCTAD) and for civil society
organizations, especially in Asia and Africa. She also has private sector
experience as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an international
consulting company (ECI Consulting, Inc.) in Canada.
S.G. Corat is a graduate of the American College for Girls/Robert
College in Istanbul and holds a B.A Honours degree from Boğaziçi
University (Istanbul, Turkey). She has M.A. degrees from the College of
Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and the Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). She
pursued her doctoral studies in the Political Science Department of
Carleton University.

4. Ms Athukorala is a multidisciplinary skilled
professional, internationally recognised for her work in IWRM, gender
and water.
Crossing disciplinary and academic boundaries to water management
from her 12 years previous experience as a university teacher in
languages and cultural studies, she holds a MSc in Managing Rural
Change, from the Imperial College at Wye, University of London.
She has been a pioneer researcher in gender and water in Sri Lanka.
Ms Kusum She has spent a large part of the past decade in establishing and
Athukorala
growing an array of national and international organisations related to
water management including SaciWATERS (South Asia Consortium for
Interdisciplinary Water Studies, Hyderabad – India); Network of
Women Water Professionals, Sri Lanka (NetWwater); Global Water
Partnership (GWP) and Women for Water Partnership (WfWP)
Netherlands.
She works as consultant and resource person with a range of national
and international organisations in water management and
development studies.