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Water and Gender

The criticality of incorporating gender perspectives in water management and community development programmes lie in the fact that decision-making processes always start at home and at the individual level. Power structures not-with-standing, most of the decisions at the household level are taken by women, and directly affect the household to which she belongs. Also, benefits accrued from education and awareness building programmes targeted at women, are ploughed back to the family and household.

An effective gender-sensitive policy creates the right conditions for the delivery of resources to women, the provision of cost-effective and complementaty services, and mainstreams gender issues within larger developmental policies.

UEMRI: Gender Perspectices in Water Management (Thematic page)
The UEMRI theme pages on gender perspectives in water water management is a repositopry of documents and links to programmes and projects, and provides a comprehensive gateway on the topic.
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/water/gender/index.html

Sanicon: Sanitation and Gender: A gender approach for effectiveness and equality
Socially and cultural determined differences are essentially construed as gender differences. Gender differences are made by people. They can, and do, change. In sanitation, for example, young girls and boys often do not differ in their personal sanitation habits.
http://www.sanicon.net/titles/topicintro.php3?topicId=18