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IFAD - Gender and Water: Securing Water for Improved Rural Livelihoods. The multiple uses system approach
Abstract
Most of the world’s 1.2 billion poor people, two thirds of whom are women, live in waterscarce
countries and do not have access to safe and reliable supplies of water for productive
and domestic uses (IFAD 2001a). The bulk of these rural poor people are dependant on
agriculture for their livelihoods and live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the regions
which are also home to most of the world’s water poor (Molden 2007).
This review examines the impact of water-related projects on women, women’s role in
managing water resources and the constraints women face in gaining access to water. It
presents lessons learned in promoting women’s participation in decision-making for water
management using experiences from several IFAD-supported water programmes and
projects. It highlights the innovative activities and catalysts that have helped to address
gender issues in water programmes and projects. And it offers recommendations on
how to improve women’s access to water resources through equitable development and
gender mainstreaming.
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