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Gender
and Water
At the start of the
International Year of Freshwater in
February 2003,
the Interagency Network on Women and
Gender Equality (IANWGE) decided to
establish an Interagency Gender and
Water Task Force and invited
Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (DESA) to serve as Task
Manager. It was also agreed to invite a
few non-UN entities to be part of the
Task Force.
The first meeting of the
Interagency Gender and Water Task Force
was held on 10 September 2003.
Subsequent meetings have been held about
twice a year. Informal consultations are
held among core members on specific
tasks, such as inputs to the
report of the Millennium Project Task
Force on Water and Sanitation and
the
World Water Development Report I and
Report II. Frequent contact by email
with
members enables the Task Force to
coordinate its activities and consult on
its programme of work.
The meeting of
UN-Water
in late 2004 agreed that
the Task Force would be one of its sub-programmes
and requested it to take responsibility
for the gender component of
the International 糎ater for Life・
Decade, 2005-2015. The Task Force
reports to IANGWE at its spring session
and to UN-Water at its semi-annual
sessions. Most recent activities of the
Task Force include:
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Members of the Task
Force attended
the Fourth World Water Forum,
16-22 March, 2006, Mexico. The Task
Force co-convened the session
entitled 全afe, accessible, private
and nearby: involving women in
managing water and sanitation葉he
key to meeting the MDGs・on 19 March
at the Forum. The report of the Task
Force痴 participation at the Forum
is available at link below.
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The Task Force
assisted to finalize a manuscript of
15 case studies, entitled
敵ender, Water and Sanitation Case
Studies and Best Practices・/a>
contributed by
the UN Office of the Special Advisor
on Gender Issues and Advancement of
Women (OSAGI). Case studies have
been used in the
Resource Guide on Gender and IWRM
and in
鄭 Gender Perspective on Water
Resources and Sanitation・/a>,
Wagadu (Feb 06), a Journal of
Transnational Women痴 and Gender
Studies.
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The Task Manager
convened an informal meeting of
members of the Task Force with some
of the women ministers of water and
of the environment on 23 August
2005, during the World Water Week in
Stockholm. The meeting confirmed the
support and commitment of the women
ministers to the efforts to
mainstream gender in water
management.
Information about the
Interagency Task Force on Gender and
Water materials, including case studies,
papers, and policy brief can be found on
the
Freshwater page.
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