An Overview of Capacity Building on Gender Equity in the Water Sector

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-289
Author(s):  
Prabha Khosla
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Water Sector

scholarly journals Awareness on Drudgery Reducing Farm Technologies for Gender Equity

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
V. Vijaya Lakshmi ◽  
J. Deepika
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Farm Women ◽  
Crop Season ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Seed Placement ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Adoption Level ◽  
The Given

Agriculture in India is moving away from animal driven to machine driven. Apart from tractors and power weeders which are used by farmers, there are farm tools and implements that can be used by farm women to reduce their drudgery with increased productivity. The present study made an attempt in introducing the set of 14 drudgery reducing farm tools and implements i.e. sapling transplanter, sickle/kurpi, long handle weeders, three types of harvest bags, ring cutter, finger guards, milking stand cum stool, head load manager, seed cum fertilizer bag, seed placement tube and fertilizer broad caster. A capacity building training programme was conducted to the farm women for exposure about the improved set of farm tools and implements. The implements were given to village secretary for use of this equipment by a group of 50 farm women and data were collected from them regarding the awareness about the technologies before and after the capacity building training programmes. Adoption levels were assessed after completion of a crop season. It was found that partial awareness was there about the improved equipment before training and cent per cent awareness was in the random selected group after the training programs. About 62 per cent of the sample has moderately adopted the given technologies. The study indicated for educating the farmers about the importance of drudgery reducing technologies, training them in using the farm implements and providing them to have an easy accessibility to enhance the adoption level. Custom hiring centres can be the solution to house the improved technologies suitable for farm women so that they can be used on rotation basis.

Getting things done: bureaucratic and entrepreneurial approaches to the practice of participatory water management reforms in Brazil and India

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (S1) ◽  
pp. 84-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Tankha ◽  
Boyd Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
Participatory Water Management

Based on field investigations of initiatives to increase stakeholder participation in water management in Brazil and India, this paper provides insights into the practice of water sector reforms. Looking at the pace of reforms across both countries, we find that the process of creating institutions to facilitate stakeholder participation is proceeding rapidly but greater attention is required on administrative reforms and capacity building. We find that the supply and demand of participation opportunities is often mismatched, and that participation reforms in the water sector may follow two very different paths: the bureaucratic and the entrepreneurial.

scholarly journals Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal

Water Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1017-1033
Author(s):  
Gitta Shrestha ◽  
Floriane Clement
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Fresh Perspective

Abstract Despite decades of gender mainstreaming in the water sector, a wide gap between policy commitments and outcomes remains. This study aims at offering a fresh perspective on such policy gaps, by analysing how gendered discourses, institutions and professional culture contribute to policy gaps. We rely on a conceptual framework originally developed for analysing strategic change, which is used to analyse gender in the public water sector in Nepal. Our analysis relies on a review of national water policies and a series of semi-structured interviews with male and female water professionals from several public agencies. Our findings evidence how dominant discourses, formal rules and professional culture intersect to support and reproduce hegemonic masculine attitudes and practices of water professionals. Such attitudes and practices in turn favour a technocratic implementation of policy measures. We argue that gender equality policy initiatives in the water sector have overly focused on local level formal institutions and have not adequately considered the effects of masculine discourses, norms and culture to be effective in making progress towards gender equity. We conclude with policy recommendations.

Institutional Capacity Building for Water Sector Development

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atef Hamdy ◽  
Mahmoud Abu-Zeid ◽  
C. Lacirignola
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Institutional Capacity Building

Building Sustainable Capacity in Health Research through e-Learning in Resource Constrained Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 266-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manu Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Social determinants like income level, nutrition, education, occupation, gender, and poverty influence the health status of individual, resulting in wide disparities in the health status of different socio-economic groups. Efforts to reduce health inequities can be strengthened by incorporating a Social Determinants of Health approach in creating Health Care policy. This will require an increase in the number of scientists in low and middle-income countries, with the necessary skills. This chapter focuses on a novel capacity building approach, adopted by a European Union funded project, entitled “Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health”. The project uses innovative educational technologies to deliver education and training that would be helpful in building new research training capacity on social determinants of health, in low and middle-income countries. The capacity building approach adopted by the project, will reduce brain drain, is more climate friendly and also encourage gender equity within low and middle-income country-based training.

Concept note - Development of a SDG Indicator 6.a.2 on Human Resources in the Water Sector.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloé Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Water Harvesting ◽  
Water Efficiency ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Member States

SDg Target 6.a is dedicated to 'expanding international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse of technologies'. We argue that this Target and its Indicator do not currently provide means to verify whether or not Member States have the necessary human resources capacities to improve the baseline related to water targets. We propose to develop an additional indicator, SG Indicator 6.a.2, dedicated to assessing human resources needs to reach sustainable, full water and sanitation coverage. Capacity-building Human resources SDGs

Concept note - Development of a SDG Indicator 6.a.2 on Human Resources in the Water Sector.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloé Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Water Harvesting ◽  
Water Efficiency ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Member States

SDg Target 6.a is dedicated to 'expanding international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse of technologies'. We argue that this Target and its Indicator do not currently provide means to verify whether or not Member States have the necessary human resources capacities to improve the baseline related to water targets. We propose to develop an additional indicator, SG Indicator 6.a.2, dedicated to assessing human resources needs to reach sustainable, full water and sanitation coverage. Capacity-building Human resources SDGs

scholarly journals Raising Up Gender Equity Voices: Report from an International Virtual Assembly in Global Surgery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Nunes Campos ◽  
Natalie Pawlak ◽  
Lotta Velin ◽  
Nensi Melissa Ruzgar ◽  
Ayla Gerk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Global Surgery ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Assembly Planning ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Surgical Workforce

Abstract Background: The adaptation of conferences to virtual platforms has allowed more international colleagues and underrepresented members of the surgical workforce to access educational opportunities. With the purpose of addressing the gap in open-access gender equity education, the Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery (GEIGS) held its first general assembly in 2020 as a pathway to promote capacity building on this topic.Objectives: This article aims to report the organization and outcomes of the GEIGS general assembly as an example of opportunities to develop capacity on gender equity and diversity in global surgery using virtual platforms. Project Design and Implementation: The GEIGS General Assembly was a two-day event held on December 12th and December 20th, 2020. The project was led by an organizing committee, composed of 11 individuals of diverse backgrounds, who were divided into logistics, advocacy, and sessions teams. The assembly planning was facilitated through weekly meetings under the supervision of the GEIGS steering committee.Main Achievements: GEIGS piloted a virtual global-scale general assembly that encompassed small-group and international community building, interactive learning, and advocacy. In terms of regional representation, there were 199 attendees from 46 different countries. The event highlighted the need to promote inclusion of non-English speakers in the global surgery community, and sessions about intersectionality; equity, social justice, and diversity; and national surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia planning garnered the most participant engagement. Moreover, social media engagement mirrored an increased utilization of online platforms for educational, advocacy and promotional purposes, enhancing both scholarly dissemination and capacity building. Policy Implications: Engaging in global surgery demands identifying leaders who will build awareness, workforce diversity, and capacity. Our report demonstrates that the topic of gender equity has not held a prominent place in global surgery, and that this first intersectional conference was an initial step to align both agendas and debate the role of female and non-binary health workers in surgical, anesthesia and obstetric specialties in an international, socially engaging, and region-specific context.

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