Gender Report
The report on ‘Rethinking Gender Equality through the Lens of Economic Empowerment in Water’ shares the success of the unique SEWAH program, where women’s traditional roles of carrying water on their heads are supplemented by owning and operating local water stations. Women are becoming the leaders of change in their communities by providing safe
water, WASH education, and promoting environmental sustainability.
Women-led SWEs hold fiscal discipline and the ability to work with the local government to troubleshoot operational problems of raw water availability and electricity and dispense safe water equitably and inclusively to the community. The ‘Water Aunties’ program showcases how women’s engagement increases the efficiency, delivery, and sustainability of safe drinking water and provides guidance for concrete actions in the public and private realms of SWEs to include women in the program increasingly.
There is a need to collect gender-disaggregated data while formulating
policies that create a positive gender bias and incentives for women’s inclusion in the SWEs. There should be a focused call for action to increase the capacity and the means of women so that they can invest in traditionally masculine professions. Create institutions that promote access to finance, entrepreneurship mentoring, and skilling to operate SWEs.
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