Presentation made by Dr Alice M. Bouman-Dentener , President of the Woman for Water Partnership, World Water Week, August 26-31, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden

1. Gender indicators
for women’s empowerment strategies
in water and food security
Drs. Alice M. Bouman-Dentener
President Women for Water Partnership

2. Indicators are (CIDA 1997):
Criteria are measures against which changes
can be assessed.
They may be pointers, facts, numbers, opinions
or perceptions –
used to signify changes in specific conditions
or progress towards particular objectives.

3. Presentation outline:
1.Women for Water Partnership:
•
Who are we?
•
What conditions we want to change?
•
Objectives
2.AMCOW gender mainstreaming strategy:
•
How does WfWP relate to strategy?
•
What is our specific niche in
implementing the strategy?
•
Examples of our African members
3.Indicators to measure women’s
empowerment strategies in water & food
security

4. Who we are

5.  Global Women’s Civil Society
Network
 24 member organisations
 90 countries

6. Women’s Major Group
of UNCED Agenda 21
uniting to achieve access to water
and adequate sanitation for all

7. Water and women’s empowerment:
mutually supportive
 Water empowers
women
 Empowered women
become effective
agents of change

8. Dublin principles for IWRM
2. Development & management of water
should be based on a participatory
approach, involving users, planners and policy
makers at the lowest appropriate level.
3. Women play a central role
in the supply, management and
safeguarding of water.

9. Women supported as
effective Agents of Change?

10. How can AMCOW gender
mainstreaming strategy
help?

11. Aspects of AMCOW gender policy:
1.Institutional strengthening for gender
mainstreaming
2.Strengthen partnerships
3.Enhance sensitization at all levels
4.Recommended actions for
implementation and achievements of
AMCOW gender commitments

12. Institutional level
a. legal and policy frameworks
b. institutional mechanisms

13. There is a hole in the bucket!

14. Effective AMCOW strategy:
Women: to effective, empowered
passive beneficiaries partners

15. Implementation level
c. Strengthening civil society where
implementation takes place

16. Of the total development budget
1%
goes to women’s organisations

17. Basic indicator:
How much money goes to women’s organizations

18. Pioneering impact
measurement
of women’s empowerment
in water and food security

19. Key success factor
for AMCOW
gender mainstreaming strategy
Involve the women’s Major Group
as equal partners

20. THANK YOU