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Gender and Water

Gender-disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation:
Expert Group Meeting Report
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) and UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), 2009 (872 KB)

Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook
Module 6 - Gender Mainstreaming in Agricultural Water Management
World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 2008

Gender and water, Securing water for improved rural livelihoods: The multiple-uses system approach
IFAD, 2007 (3 MB)

Gender and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Resource Guide
Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), 2006

Policy Brief: Gender, Water and Sanitation
UN-Water Task Force on Gender and Water, 2006 (1 MB)

Gender mainstreaming: An essential component of sustainable water management
Global Water Partnership (GWP) Policy Brief 3, 2006 (248 KB)

For Her - It's the Big Issue: putting women at the centre of water supply, sanitation and hygiene
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) in collaboration with the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GWA and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2006 (3 MB)
Also available in French (2 MB), Portuguese (2 MB) and Spanish (2.7 MB)

Why Gender Matters: A tutorial for water managers
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Cap-net and GWA, 2006 (1.6 MB)

Women 2000 and beyond: Women and Water
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDESA, DAW), 2005 (268 KB)