mponents of SDGs 10, 15, 16 and 17. Interlinked planning, combined action and (sex disaggregated) monitoring at local and national levels is needed to inform targeted gender responsive
• Women are innovators and important agents of change who impact and influence their societies. Too few women are engaged on water issues – both through formal employment and localized involvement in decision-making committees. Promoting women’s meaningful participation at all levels is key to implementing sustainable solutions.
Initiatives, tools, networks
• Co-designed citizen monitoring processes ensure a focus on local values, and fosters collective action, buy-in and behaviour changes. The bottom-up approach seeks to identify and unpack critical connections between women’s participation in decision-making, the conservation of ecosystems, community access to natural resources and small-scale food production.
• WWAP’s Gender Toolkit for collecting household sex disaggregated data on water issues (access, participation and management) provides a robust quantitative and qualitative evidence base to inform national water policy recommendations and identify funding source shortages / impediments to women’s organizations, where changes to finance allocation methodologies is required.
• An integrated gender-analytical framework for water governance guides practitioners in considering how the overarching desired outcomes of a programme can be unpacked in terms of gender disparities and inequalities, the implications of these, and the resultant policy recommendations that would lead to improved, equitable benefits.