Gender, Water and Development
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Gender, Water and Development

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Gender, Water and Development

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Gender, Water and Development by Anne Coles,Tina Wallace in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & International Relations. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781845201241
eBook ISBN
9781000189858
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
International Relations
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Water, Gender and Development: An Introduction
  9. 2 Taking the Waters: Cosmology, Gender and Material Culture in the Appropriation of Water Resources
  10. 3 The Role of Water in an Unequal Social Order in India
  11. 4 Naked Power: Women and the Social Production of Water in Anglophone Cameroon
  12. 5 Geology and Gender: Water Supplies, Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Central Sudan
  13. 6 Gender Mainstreaming in the Water Sector in Nepal: A Real Commitment or a Token?
  14. 7 The Challenge to International NGOs of Incorporating Gender
  15. 8 Misunderstanding Gender in Water: Addressing or Reproducing Exclusion
  16. 9 Enabling Women to Participate in African Smallholder Irrigation Development and Design
  17. 10 Water and AIDS: Problems Associated with the Home-based Care of AIDS Patients in a Rural Area of Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  18. 11 Gender and Poverty Approach in Practice: Lessons Learned in Nepal
  19. 12 Easier to Say, Harder to Do: Gender, Equity and Water
  20. Index