Gender, Water And Development

by Wallace, Tina; Coles, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781845201258
• ISBN10: 1845201256
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-14
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be marginalized in the development process. A close analysis of current policy and practice shows that organizations providing improved water supplies to poor communities typically neglect the gendered nature of access to and control over water resources. The resulting gender bias causes inefficiencies and injustices in water provision and reduces the effectiveness of well-meant efforts. This book shows how, in different environmental, historical and cultural contexts, gender has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives. Case studies include analysis of the role of water in inhibiting the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and the challenges of taking gender into account in large water projects in India and Nepal.

Author Biography

Tina Wallace is a Research Associate, International Gender Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Senior Research Fellow, School of Business, Oxford Brookes.

Anne Coles is a Research Associate, International Gender Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
1 Water, Gender and Development: An Introduction
Tina Wallace and Anne Coles	1	(20)
2 Taking the Waters: Cosmology, Gender and Material Culture in the Appropriation of Water Resources
Veronica Strang	21	(18)
3 The Role of Water in an Unequal Social Order in India
Deepa Joshi and Ben Fawcett	39	(18)
4 Naked Power: Women and the Social Production of Water in Anglophone Cameroon
Ben Page	57	(18)
5 Geology and Gender: Water Supplies. Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Central Sudan
Anne Coles	75	(20)
6 Gender Mainstreaming in the Water Sector in Nepal: A Real Commitment or a Token?
Shibesh Chandra Regmi	95	(20)
7 The Challenge to International NGOs of Incorporating Gender
Tina Wallace and Pauline Wilson	115	(20)
8 Misunderstanding Gender in Water: Addressing or Reproducing Exclusion
Deepa Joshi	135	(20)
9 Enabling Women to Participate in African Smallholder Irrigation Development and Design
Felicity Chancellor	155	(18)
10 Water and AIDS: Problems Associated with the Home-based Care of AIDS Patients in a Rural Area of Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Anne Hutchings and Gina Buijs	173	(16)
11 Gender and Poverty Approach in Practice: Lessons Learned in Nepal
Umesh Pandey and Michelle Moffatt	189	(20)
12 Easier to Say, Harder to Do: Gender, Equity and Water
Sarah House	209	(18)
Index	227