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Concrete Actions: Advancing the Integration of Gender, Water, Food Security

Convenor - Global Water Partnership (GWP)

Co-Convenor - African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Event Description
Rural women are key food producers in agriculture in Africa and other developing regions. They possess knowledge of crop production, local biodiversity, soils and local water resources and yet continue to be excluded from decision-making processes in new agricultural water management approaches, projects, and in adoption of private technologies. The more mechanised water technologies are, the more they seem to be taken up by men. Moreover, women's domestic water chores continue limiting their time for farming and providing for household and national food security. The 2011 Gender Strategy of the African Ministers Council on Water addresses these water-related livelihood spheres where gender equality is key in a holistic manner. It offers new opportunities to catalyse evidence-based debates, and minimum common targets on gender, water and food security for both domestic and productive uses. It has relevance to other continents.

AMCOW, GWP, FAO and IWMI will co-convene a session in partnership with the WSP/World Bank, IFPRI, SEI, WfWP, WRC and PLAAS of South Africa to discuss how to develop, implement, monitor and measure concrete targets on gender, water and food security in the context of the AMCOW gender strategy. Progress on more universal gender indicator development and monitoring for domestic uses will be discussed, together with similarities, synergies but also differences with gender indicators for productive water uses. By aiming at gender equality in women's and men's holistic livelihoods, the session overcomes the water sector's compartmentalisation between domestic and productive uses.

The objectives of the session are to:

• Catalyse a common understanding of evidence-based and livelihood-oriented targets on gender, water and food security
• Facilitate partnering and cross-sectoral synergies to develop gender indicators
• Identify follow-up cooperation actions

The expected outcomes are to:

• Agree on initial broad minimum shared indicators
• Agree on follow up cooperation actions by AMCOW, GWP, FAO, IWMI, and cooperating partners; IFPRI, WSP/Worldbank, SEI, WfWP, WRC and PLAAS of South Africa.

Programme
15:45 Welcome and Introduction by the Chair.
Hon. Betty Atuku Bigombe, State Minister for Water Resources, Uganda

15:55 Context of GWP Gender Strategy and Cooperation with AMCOW.
Dr. Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister, GWP

16:05 The AMCOW Gender Policy & Strategy.
Ms. Phoebe Luwum, AMCOW

16:20 FAO Contributions to the AMCOW Gender Strategy Implementation: Overview of Gender, Water and Food Security Indicators and Tools.
Dr. Ilaria Sisto, FAO

16:35 The Advantages of an Integrated Approach to Implementing the AMCOW Gender Strategy. Gender Indicators from the Angle of Productive and Multiple Water Uses.
Dr. Barbara van Koppen, IMWI

16:50 Gender Indicators from the WASH Angle.
Ms. Rosemary Rop, WsP/WB

17:05 Coffee Break

17:20 Gender Indicators for Women's Empowerment Strategies in Water and Food Security.
Dr. Alice Bouman - Dentener, Women for Water Partnership, The Netherlands

17:35 Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index: Its Contribution to Implementation of AMCOW Gender Strategy.
Dr. Ruth Meinzen Dick, IFPRI

17:50 Feedback on Indicators for Implementing the AMCOW Strategic Objectives on:

• Water and Sanitation: Use and Reuse.
  Mr. Linus Dagerskog, SEI
• Gender in Productive Water Uses and Water Resources Management.
  Ms. Barbara Tapela, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, Water Research Commission South Africa
• Gender and Economic Water Uses.
  Dr. Bancy Mati, Consultant, Kenya

18:30 Way Forward - Concrete Follow up Actions and Partnerships
(AMCOW, GWP, IFPRI, FAO, IWMI, SEI, Women for Water Partnership, WSP/Worldbank)

18:45 Closure.
Dr. Ania Grobicki, GWP

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Direct Link to Full 176-Page Document: http://www.inweh.unu.edu/WaterSecurity/documents/WaterSecurity_FINAL_Aug2012.pdf

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