Leadership and voice: more than add women and stir
Why is women’s leadership and voice important? Why is it relevant to WASH?
Date: 17 June 2019
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Women’s empowerment: sharpening our focus
What is women’s empowerment? How do you measure it? Why is it relevant to the WASH?
Empowerment, and more specifically women’s empowerment, is among the most fuzzy concepts within international development. This article looks at how it has evolved drawing on key international feminist thinkers, concluding that women’s empowerment is best understood as a process rather than an end goal, where marginalised women are able to set their own political agendas, to access resources, form movements and achieve lasting change in gender and social power structures.
Date: 17 June 2019
Poster: Transgender-inclusive sanitation: Insights from South Asia
The WASH sector is focusing upon the 2030 global ambition of achieving universal access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030. But the needs of transgender people, however, have so far been neglected: ‘the use of public bathrooms, which are often sex -segregated, has been associated with exclusion, denial of access, verbal harassment, physical abuse and sometimes even the arrest of transgender and intersex individuals’ - Catarina de Albuquerque.
Date: 14 November 2018
Water access and sanitation shape birth outcomes and earning potential
This blog post provides an accessible overview of the recently published study, 'Impact of social capital, harassment of women and girls, and water and sanitation access on premature birth and low infant birth weight in India.' It draws on the report along with interviews with the authors.
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