Gender Issues In Water And Sanitation Programmes Hardcover

India

Aidan A. Cronin

Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social, cultural and political involvement.This book aims to unpack the key elements of the WASH - gender nexus, examine these and recommend ways ahead for improved gender outcomes and WASH impact in India. Table of Contents: List of Tables List of Figures Foreword by Joke Muylwijk Introduction: Achieving the Desired Gender Outcome in Water and Sanitation Anjal Prakash, Aidan Cronin and Pradeep K Mehta I: Conceptual Underpinning Accelerating Gender Outcomes: The WASH Sector Sunetra Lala, Malika Basu, Jyotsna and Aidan Cronin Women and Water: Vulnerability from water shortages Yusuf Kabir, Niranjan Vedantam and M. Dinesh Kumar Crossing Boundaries: Gender and IWRM in Education and Research Anjal Prakash and Chanda Gurung Goodrich Gender and WASH: Capacity-building Initiatives Swati Sinha II: Case Studies: Water Gender Issues in Watershed Management Suhas P Wani , K H Anantha, T K Sreedevi Gender and Governance: A Case of Jalswarajya Project Aditya Bastola Unleashing the Gender Differentials in Water Management: The Rural Milieu Pradeep K Mehta and Niti Saxena The High Fluoride Burden and Tribal Women: Occurrence and Remedy Tapas Chakma, Gregor von Medeazza, Sanjay Singh and Pradeep Meshram Women's Voice in Water Resource Management K A S Mani, Vallaperla Paul Raja Rao, Madhukar Reddy and Ch. Ram Babu Leadership and Participation: Role of Gender Sudhir Prasad, Satyabrata Acharya and Somnath Basu III: Case Studies:SanitationEnabling Gendered Environment for Watershed Management Eshwer Kale and Dipak Zade Women-led Total Sanitation: Saving Lives and Dignity Gregor von Medeazza, Megha Jain, Ajit Tiwari, Janardan Prasad Shukla and Nisheet Kumar Innovative Approaches in Communication Ajit K. Saxena, Shailesh Mujumdar and Gregor von Medeazza Liberty from Shame: Accelerating Sanitation with ASHAs Amit Mehrotra and Ajay Singh IV: Conclusion Conclusions and Way Forward Aidan Cronin, Anjal Prakash and Pradeep K Mehta Index

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Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd

31 Jan 2015

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Aidan A. Cronin trained as a civil and environmental engineer and holds a PhD in Water Resources from Queens University, Belfast. He has worked in consultancy and then as a Senior Research Fellow at the Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health, University of Surrey, UK, where he spent five years researching the impact of anthropogenic activities on water quality in the EU and developing country settings. He then worked as a water and sanitation advisor at the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in their Public Health Section in Geneva, Switzerland, before joining UNICEF India in 2008. He managed the UNICEF water and sanita-tion programme in Odisha, India, up to September 2010 when he joined the New Delhi office as the water advisor. His research interests are in understanding the impact and contribution (health, nutrition, economic and social) of WASH provision and the processes needed to achieve these. Pradeep K. Mehta is Group Leader, Rural Research Centre, S M Sehgal Foundation, Gurgaon, India. He holds a PhD in Economics from Mysore University through the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore; an MPhil in Planning and Development from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay; and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics (honours) from Punjab University, Chandigarh. A development specialist, he has over eight years of experience in teaching and research. His areas of expertise are rural development, agriculture, climate change gender, water and impact evaluation.

Pradeep Kumar Mehta

Anjal Prakash

A timely and welcome addition...The book, documenting both quantitative and qualitative information on gender issues. -- Social Change, * Volume 47 (Issue 1), March 2017 * An excellent documentation of work on gender relations in the water and sanitation sectors.... Shares various field experiences and fills the knowledge gap...It is good suggestive book for practitioners, students, academics, policy makers and all those with an interest in water, sanitation and hygiene sector. By reading the book, an individual develops knowledge... It is informative and readability is smooth...The style of presentation is good...It is a good resource book and has great relevance to development functionaries working in water, sanitation and hygiene. -- Journal of Rural Development, July- September 2015 A new compendium on women's relationship with water and sanitation exposes a series of harsh realities...that deal with the tricky and highly important subject of water and sanitation - and a welcome addition to the body of work available to practitioners...Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes, covers broad concepts - water and sanitation and their relationship with women. -- The Business Line