Editors Cronin, Mehta, and Prakash present readers with a collection of academic essays and articles devoted to examining the impact of exclusion and inequitable access to water on women in India. The contributions that make up the main body of the text have been organized in four parts, covering the conceptual underpinning of the issues under examination, case studies in water access and gender, case studies in sanitation, and the editors’ conclusions. Aidan A. Cronin works with UNICEF internationally, Pradeep K. Mehta is a researcher employed by the Sehgal Foundation, India. Anjal Prakash is a Consortium Coordinator with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. This book aims to unpack the key elements of the WASH-gender nexus, examine these and recommend ways ahead for improved gender outcomes and WASH impact in India.
Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social, cultural and political involvement.
This book aims to unpack the key elements of the WASH–gender nexus, examine these and recommend ways ahead for improved gender outcomes and WASH impact in India.
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A new compendium on womens relationship with water and sanitation exposes a series of harsh realities...that deal with the tricky and highly important subject of water and sanitation and a welcome addition to the body of work available to practitioners...Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes, covers broad concepts water and sanitation and their relationship with women. -- The Business Line An excellent documentation of work on gender relations in the water and sanitation sectors. Shares various field experiences and fills the knowledge gapIt is good suggestive book for practitioners, students, academics, policy makers and all those with an interest in water, sanitation and hygiene sector. By reading the book, an individual develops knowledge... It is informative and readability is smoothThe style of presentation is goodIt is a good resource book and has great relevance to development functionaries working in water, sanitation and hygiene. -- Journal of Rural Development, July- September 2015 A timely and welcome additionThe book, documenting both quantitative and qualitative information on gender issues. -- Social Change, * Volume 47 (Issue 1), March 2017 *
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Achieving the Desired Gender Outcome in Water and Sanitation |
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SECTION 1 Conceptual Underpinning |
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Chapter 2 Accelerating Gender Outcomes: The WASH Sector |
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Chapter 3 Women and Water: Vulnerability from Water Shortages |
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Chapter 4 Crossing Boundaries: Gender and IWRM in Education and Research |
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Chapter 5 Gender and WASH: Capacity-building Initiatives |
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SECTION 2 Case Studies: Water |
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Chapter 6 Gender Issues in Watershed Management |
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Chapter 7 Gender and Governance: A Case of Jalswarajya Project |
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Chapter 8 Unleashing the Gender Differentials in Water Management: The Rural Milieu |
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Chapter 9 The High Fluoride Burden and Tribal Women: Occurrence and Remedy |
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Chapter 10 Women's Voice in Water Resource Management |
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Chapter 11 Leadership and Participation: Role of Gender |
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Chapter 12 Enabling Gendered Environment for Watershed Management |
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Chapter 13 Women-led Total Sanitation: Saving Lives and Dignity |
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Chapter 14 Innovative Approaches in Communication |
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Chapter 15 Liberty from Shame: Accelerating Sanitation with ASHAs |
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Chapter 16 Conclusions and Way Forward |
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Aidan A. Cronin trained as a civil and environmental engineer and holds a PhD in Water Resources from Queens University, Belfast. He has worked in consultancy and then as a Senior Research Fellow at the Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health, University of Surrey, UK, where he spent five years researching the impact of anthropogenic activities on water quality in the EU and developing country settings. He then worked as a water and sanitation advisor at the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in their Public Health Section in Geneva, Switzerland, before joining UNICEF India in 2008. He managed the UNICEF water and sanitation programme in Odisha, India, up to September 2010 when he joined the New Delhi office as the water advisor. His research interests are in understanding the impact and contribution (health, nutrition, economic and social) of WASH provision and the processes needed to achieve these.
Pradeep K. Mehta is Group Leader, Rural Research Centre, S M Sehgal Foundation, Gurgaon, India. He holds a PhD in Economics from Mysore University through the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore; an MPhil in Planning and Development from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay; and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics (honours) from Punjab University, Chandigarh. A development specialist, he has over eight years of experience in teaching and research. His areas of expertise are rural development, agriculture, climate change gender, water and impact evaluation.
Anjal Prakash is the Executive Director at SaciWATERs, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies based at Hyderabad in Southern India. He is also the Project Director of Water Security in Peri-Urban South Asia,
a project funded by IDRC. He has worked extensively on the issues of groundwater management, gender, natural resource management, and water supply and sanitation. Having an advanced degree from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, and PhD in Social and Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, Dr Prakash has been working in the area of policy research, advocacy, capacity building, knowledge development, networking and implementation of large-scale environmental development projects. Before joining SaciWATERs, Dr Prakash worked with the policy team of WaterAid India, New Delhi, where he handled research and implementation of projects related to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Dr Prakash is the author of The Dark Zone: Groundwater Irrigation, Politics and Social Power in North Gujarat, published by Orient Longman. His recent edited
books are Interlacing Water and Health: Case Studies from South Asia (2012) by SAGE Publications and Water Resources Policies in South Asia (2013) by Routledge. He is presently co-editing books on case studies of IWRM and Peri-Urban Water
Security Issues to be published by Routledge and Oxford University Press, respectively.
