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Mainstreaming Gender Dimensions into Water Resources Development and Management in the Mediterranean Region GEWAMED PRO

Mainstreaming Gender Dimensions into Water Resources Development and Management in the Mediterranean Region GEWAMED PROJECT Presented by Barbara Tomassini MIO-ECSDE. GEWAMED. The GEWAMED project has started on 15 February 2006 with a duration of 4 years;

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Mainstreaming Gender Dimensions into Water Resources Development and Management in the Mediterranean Region GEWAMED PRO

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  1. Mainstreaming Gender Dimensions into Water Resources Development and Management in the Mediterranean Region GEWAMED PROJECT Presented by Barbara Tomassini MIO-ECSDE

  2. GEWAMED • The GEWAMED project has started on 15 February 2006 with a duration of 4 years; • Promoted and coordinated by CIHEAM-MAIB (Bari); • Coordinated Action (CA) of the INCO programme (FP6); • It intends to generate new knowledge through communication & coordination of the participating institutions;

  3. Objectives • Support gender mainstreaming in all processes related to IWRM at regional and national levels in the Med; • Enhance cooperation and dialogue among Mediterranean countries but also within each country; • Contribute to the adoption of national policies and other related instrumentsfor mainstreaming gender dimensions in IWRM; • Beneficiaries: women, women organizations & gender institutions, IWRM Stakeholders;

  4. Partners • A total of 18 institutions from 14 MC: • 9 Governmental institutions • 2 International organizations • 7 NGOs • 9 SEMR* and 5 EU countries; • Some institutions have good experience in water and others in gender but few in both; * South East Mediterranean Region (SEMR) countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

  5. Working strategy GEWAMED takes advantage of the expertise of partners (GOs, IGOS, NGOs etc) to gather, process, produce & diffuse widely information on water and gender related issues, while supporting the creation of multi-stakeholders dialogues further contributing to disseminate knowledge and to involve decision-makers and politicians in efforts towards the improvement of women's conditions in the water sector.

  6. Key activities (1/3) Building a national and regional shared knowledge base: • Assessment of women situation in IWRM in a number of participating countries; This assessment has provided evidence of many inequities. • Establishment of a Regional Internet Web Site containing a structured Data Base with gender-water related information and several national institutions websites

  7. Key activities (2/3) Enhance cooperation and dialogue at regional and national levels • 3 regional workshops on specific gender and water issues; • National Networks in SEMR countries for coordinating actions and information on gender and water issues; • Exchange of experiences among participating institutions;

  8. Key activities (3/3) Contribute to the adoption of national policies and other related instruments for mainstreaming gender dimensions in IWRM • National seminars in SEMR countries to sensitise politicians and decision-makers on gender issues; • Plans for using and disseminating the knowledge generated by the project;

  9. Lessons learnt (1/2) • Good gender & water resources info base (+) • Regional & national communication networks in SEMR countries; (+/-) • List of gender sensitive indicators in IWRM (+/-) • Regional and national websites;(+/-) • Strong dissemination policy at international and national level; (+)

  10. Lessons learnt (2/2) • Intervention in policy-making at Med level; (+/-) • GEWAMED inspired the creation of a rural women’s observatory in Lebanon; (+) • Cooperation between partners still needs improvements; (+/-)

  11. Recommendations • Raise political attention on “genderization” of IWRM; • Coordination and institutional capacity on gender issues through multi & cross-sectoral interventions; • Strengthen National & Regional multistakeholders networks created during GEWAMED;

  12. Recommendations • Education and awareness actions to support positive changes in social and cultural norms that cause inequality; • Extension services, gender specialists and training; • Access to information;

  13. Open questions & current challenges • Regional Strategies (ENP, EMP, Barcelona Convention etc) aware of the urgency to streamline gender issues in National policies/programmes but this is not translated effectively into practice yet; • Scarcity of gender analysis & gender-disaggregated statistical information; • Media & Parliamentarians as potential future important partners; • More rigorous enforcement of existing guidelines for gender mainstreaming in water development and management activities.

  14. GEWAMEDwww.gewamed.net

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