Measuring progress in achieving equitable access to water and sanitation: gender perspective

1. Measuring progress in
achieving equitable access
to water and sanitation:
gender perspective
Natasha
Dokovska
JHR
Meeting of the Parties to the
UNECE-WHO/Europe Protocol
on Water and Health
14 November, 2016
Geneva

2. Gender Mainstreaming
‘A common misunderstanding about gender
mainstreaming is that it requires some sort of gender
balance’ in any intervention, meaning an equal
representation of women and men and not any women-
specific project or components’.
- Smita Mishra Panda

3. Gender equality and equitable access to
water and sanitation in Macedonia
Journalist for Human Rights in cooperation with Institute for
Human health in Macedonia and support of UNECE secretariat
Protocol for Water and Health conduct the Score card for equity
access to water in sanitation in 2015/2016.
- In 3 communities
- With multi stockholders approach
- Involvement of more than half of population in Macedonia
- Multiethnic

4. General results :
Macedonians drink safe water and have access to
sanitation
91%
9%
cities acces to
drinking water
cities acces
towater in wall
48%
52%
village acces
to drinking
water
village access
the water
from wall

5. General results :
Macedonians drink safe water and have access to
sanitation
87%
13%
cities acces to
sewerage
cities with pit
lantrine
21%
79%
village acces
to sewerage
village with
pit lantrine

6. Macedonians drink safe water and have access to
sanitation, but
• In every hospital ward there are separate
toilets for men and women and bathrooms
for personal hygiene, while other health
facilities have toilets for men and women, not
suitable for maintaining menstrual hygiene

7. Macedonians drink safe water and
have access to sanitation, but
• All educational institutions in the city have
access to safe water and sanitation.
• All educational institutions in the city and
countryside have special toilets for men and
women as well as in larger schools in the
villages, and in some of the smaller satellite
schools have common toilets.
• But, none of the educational institutions have
adequate facilities to maintain menstrual
hygiene.

8. Macedonians drink safe water and
have access to sanitation, but
• In Skopje, municipality of Shuto Orizari has
the highest percentage of families living in
housing without water and sanitation.
• The most affected are the women and girl

9. Macedonians drink safe water and
have access to sanitation, but
• According to the latest survey by the NGO
"InSoC" 95 per cent of Roma are poor
• Only 16 per cent of Roma living in Skopje
have a toilet and a bathroom,
• The rest use toilets outside of their homes.
Just 26 per cents have access to water.

10. Causes
In the region of Skopje there are 25346 Roma who are registered, or
5% of the total population, of which 72% are receiving social
assistance. NGOs working with the Roma population, primarily InSoC
are active and have conducted extensive surveys that suggest that one
of the main problems Roma in Macedonia and Skopje face, are illegal
buildings which are not connected to the water supply and sanitation
system.

11. Obstacle
• Geographical disparity
• Lack of finance in the municipalities to develop and maintains the
access to water and sanitation
• Missing WWWTP ( except in municipality Kumanovo)
• Lack of public toilets (except in Veles)
• Lack of MHM in schools (except in one private school in Veles)
• Lack of access to drinking water and sanitation for homeless
• Bacteriologically improper drinking water in rural areas (20-40%)
• No access to drinking water and sanitation in religious facilities

12. Challenges
• Setting standards for MHM

13. Challenges
• Setting standards for toilets in public
institutions, schools and religious facilities

14. Challenges
• Setting up and implementing measures for
social protection of the population
• Embrace services to the poor informal
settlements as a key utility corporate
objective and articulate this within guidelines,
strategies and principles in the provision of
services to low income areas

15. Thank you
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