Gender Mainstreaming in Water Supply and Sanitation

14-15 September 2004
ADB Headquarters, Manila

This training activity was concluded on 15 September 2004.

Background

The Gender in Water Partnership between ADB and the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) was launched during the 3^rd World Water Forum in Japan in March 2003.

In October 2003, ADB and GWA signed a letter of agreement to co-sponsor a program of activities to put this partnership into operation. Among these activities the conduct of training programs to build the capacity of ADB staff in gender and water.

ADB Gender and Water Policies were developed with the purpose not just of pushing for greater inclusion of women, but more for promoting the optimum involvement of all sections of society -- women, men, rich and poor-- in decisions about how to sustain our precious water resources. The training aims to build capacities of ADB staff to include gender perspectives in their own work.

Objectives

The 2-day training on gender and water aims to assist ADB staff in:

understanding gender issues in water operations
developing knowledge and skills to identify opportunities for gender mainstreaming throughout the project cycle in water projects
sharing good practices of gender mainstreaming in on-going ADB water loans
developing special gender features within the loans administered by the participants

Participants

The training program is specifically designed for ADB project officers.

Program

Schedule	Session Titles
Day 1, 14 September
9.00 - 9.30	Session 1 Introduction to the training program
9.30 - 10.00	Session 2- Part A Women, Men and Gender Understanding the concept of gender discrimination
10.00 - 10.30	BREAK
10.30 - 11.30	Session 2- Part B Understanding the evolution of policy approaches to Women and Gender Understanding ADB's GAD policy, approaches and operation's manual
11.30 - 12.00	Session 3 Gender Issues in Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Identifying issues in the DWSS sector and its gender implications
12.00 - 1.30	LUNCH
1.30 - 2.30	Session 3 (cont'd) Case Study of an ADB good practice example: Nepal Community Water Supply Project 2003
2.30 - 4.00	Session 4- Part A Gender Mainstreaming in Project Cycle: Preparation
4.00 - 4.30	BREAK and CLOSING
Day 2, 15 September
9.00 - 10.00	Session 4- Part B Gender Mainstreaming in the Project Cycle: Project Design And Preparation of the Gender Action Plan
10.00 - 10.30	BREAK
10.30 - 11.30	Case Study Presentation of an ADB Good Practice Example: Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
11.30 - 12.00	Session 4- Part C Gender Mainstreaming in the Project Cycle: Appraisal
12.00 - 1.30	LUNCH
1.30 - 2.00	Session 4- Part C (cont'd) Continuation of project cycle on Appraisal
2.00 - 3.00	Gender Mainstreaming in the Project Cycle: Policy Dialogue
3.00 - 4.00	Session 5 Putting lessons into Practice Review of a loan to assist ADB staff to improve gender integration
4.00 - 4.15	BREAK
4.15 - 4.45	Session 6 Conclusion and Evaluation

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