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UN HABITAT - Mainstreaming Gender Water and Sanitation: Strategy and Action Plan
Abstract
Lack of safe water and sanitation remains one of the
world’s most urgent health issues. In India, the 10th Five
Year Plan detailed the ways services in the poorest
communities are invariably deficient and how population
in high income areas are feeling the pressure of acute
water shortage. The poor are doubly disadvantaged – they
get inadequate supplies of water at costs much higher than
the rich and the little water they do get is often of poor
quality.
The United Nations Millennium Goal 7, target 10 and 11
envisage actions–
(i) To reduce by half the proportion of people without
sustainable access to safe drinking water and
adequate sanitation by 2015 and
(ii) To achieve significant improvement in the lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
The UN-HABITAT initiated the Water for Asian Cities
(WAC) programme to address this Millennium
Development Goal and the two targets. In India, the
programme is focused on the four cities of Bhopal,
Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur in MP.
Gender Mainstreaming strategy is a blue print to centre stage gender in all development
initiatives. However, the understanding of the concept of gender mainstreaming and the
skills to implement it at local and organizational level still has a long way to go. In this
pursuit, this document will definitely enable local governance organisation to encourage the
promotion and use of gender-sensitive approach in the water and
sanitation programmes.
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