Presentation made by Dr Alice M. Bouman-Dentener , President of the Woman for Water Partnership, World Water Week, August 26-31, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
Gender indicators for women’s empowerment strategies in water and food security by Alice M. Bouman-Dentener
1. Gender indicators
for women’s empowerment strategies
in water and food security
Drs. Alice M. Bouman-Dentener
President Women for Water Partnership
2. 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.
3. Presentation outline:
1.Women for Water Partnership:
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Who are we?
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What conditions we want to change?
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Objectives
2.AMCOW gender mainstreaming strategy:
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How does WfWP relate to strategy?
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What is our specific niche in
implementing the strategy?
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Examples of our African members
3.Indicators to measure women’s
empowerment strategies in water & food
security
5. Global Women’s Civil Society
Network
24 member organisations
90 countries
6. Women’s Major Group
of UNCED Agenda 21
uniting to achieve access to water
and adequate sanitation for all
7. Water and women’s empowerment:
mutually supportive
Water empowers
women
Empowered women
become effective
agents of change
8. 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.
11. Aspects of AMCOW gender policy:
1.Institutional strengthening for gender
mainstreaming
2.Strengthen partnerships
3.Enhance sensitization at all levels
4.Recommended actions for
implementation and achievements of
AMCOW gender commitments
Women’s organisations are masters in fostering empowerment, especially of women at local level. If we than consider that: women and their organisations themselves get not even 1 % of the total development budget… Maybe we have found an easy way to accelerate the development process.