WASH Gender Indicators

Rosemary Rop

Water and Sanitation Specialist, WSP Af

Stockholm Water Week 2012

Purpose of Presentation

To describe key indicators for gender in WASH in reference to AMCOWs Gender Management

Framework

Presentation Outline

• Indicators for enabling environment, processes /action plans, mechanisms, and institutions

• Opportunities moving forward

Enabling Environment

Context

Peru, Towns of 2,000 – 30,000

Local governments, weak water management , deteriorating infrastructure, and poor communication with stakeholders

Indicators

Law of equal Opportunity, 2007

Partnership between municipality, PO and community board

50: 50 gender balanced community oversight board; transparent elections, responsive communication

Competitively appointed Private Operator

Tariff setting through separate male – female consultation and consensus

Water for multiple uses

Processes and Mechanisms

Context

Indonesia, Urban sanitation at city and community levels

Sanitation sector development program

Indicators

Targeted stakeholder gender training

Separate male female planning sessions on strategy, technical options, costs

Cooperation and equal participation in planning and implementation

Processes and mechanisms

Context

Senegal, rural hand washing with soap initiative

Traditional practice, focus on women and they were employed as hygiene relays

Indicators

Field Monitoring and discussion on strategies for scaling up

Understood that men allocate resources and play role as models

Lesson on importance of engaging men at the start of behavior initiative

Project now incorporates men as target audience; improved impacts

Institutions and Human Resources

Context

Uganda, Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE)

Water Sector Gender Strategy I & II based on National gender policy

Goal to empower men, women and vulnerable groups for equity in access and control of water resources

Indicators

2003 MWE Institutional review considered gender strategy goals

Assistant Commissioner appointed overall gender focal point (GFP), part of ToR

Staff with gender competencies hired into each sub sector department

Review also resulted in increased women's rep to 18% in senior management compared to before review

Gender Management System for WSS

Enabling Environment: policies, resources, inclusion of women and civic groups

Processes: develop and implement gender action plans

Mechanisms: awareness levers (training, M&E), incentive and boundary levers (performance contracting, accountability)

Institutions and HR: Lead agency, working groups, gender focal points

Enabling Environment

Mechanisms

Institutions and Human resources

Processes

What are the opportunities?

• Regional M&E framework to facilitate awareness of indicators and focus to gender targets

• South – South exchange and benchmarking of AMCOW 7 point strategy

• Research to provide evidence based responses

• Gender working groups and virtual community of practice;