This document summarizes an interview with Gabrielle Halcrow from SNV about delivering gender positive WASH outcomes. Some key points discussed include undertaking research to understand gender barriers, focusing on women's participation beyond just the community level, and addressing challenges such as lack of women in leadership roles. It is also noted that monitoring frameworks need to include relevant gender indicators in order to properly track SDG progress and influence decision makers regarding the importance of gender equality in WASH programs.

1. Supporting water sanitation
and hygiene services for life
November 2017
WASH Talk Podcast
Episode 8: Delivering
Gender Positive WASH in
the SDG Era
Gabrielle Halcrow, SNV

2. Introduction
− SDGs make it explicit, aiming for a world where women and girls, at
all stages of life, have access to sanitation, with safety and dignity.
And that governments at all levels have gender positive policies, the
supporting budgets and are prioritising these activities, and that they
are being monitored.
− But how? And what approaches have had the most success?
− Gabrielle Halcrow from SNV in Australia talks to us about what
practitioners need to be aware of to achieve gender positive
outcomes in their context.
− The following slides give a few key takeaways from the interview.
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3. You can take very practical steps to deliver
gender positive outcomes in WASH
programmes− Undertake research to understand the situation as it is currently,
including the barriers and norms of women that need to be
addressed.
− Mine existing data to understand issues and trends, such as number
of single female headed households, who have the highest risk of
being left behind in access to safe sanitation and hygiene.
− Beyond community level, focus should go to the district and national
levels, in terms of participation by women in meetings, training
workshops and in decision making.
− Implementing organisations themselves need to support women in
leadership and programme management, such as supporting men to
take active roles in gender equality interventions.
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4. A number of internal and external challenges can be
faced when trying to deliver gender positive
outcomes
− Internal challenges within organisations come from the
unwillingness to go further than gender neutral outcomes within
WASH programmes
− WASH programmes present a real opportunity to achieve gender
positive outcomes, such as getting women in leadership roles or
training women in WASH supply mechanisms that will improve their
economic opportunities.
− When going beyond the community, we need to get a higher number
of women into leadership roles, and encourage them to be the
champions at district and national levels.
− Once these efforts have been institutionalised in policy, we need to
support women to know their rights and give them the confidence to
not just participate but influence the agenda going forwards.
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5. There’s a long way to go to get gender
outcomes built into national SDG monitoring
frameworks− We discuss practical steps to get relevant inclusion monitoring
systems established at country level where there's a big gap, which
has implications for monitoring of SDGs.
− But we must recognize that half the challenge is actually using the
data, which we can use to influence decision makers on why it's
important, which is a first step in getting monitoring systems built in,
budgeted and actually implemented by governments.
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6. Your next steps…
− Read more about gender positive outcomes:
− Grant, M.L., Huggett, C., Willetts, J. & Wilbur, J. Australian Water
Partnership 2017,Gender Equality and Goal 6: The Critical
Connection., Canberra,
https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/115346
− Carrard, N.R., Crawford, J., Halcrow, G., Rowland, C. & Willetts,
J.R. 2013, 'A framework for exploring gender equality outcomes
from WASH programmes', Waterlines: international journal of
water, sanitation and waste, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 315-333.
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