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1 Chauhan, G.; Desai, C. G. 1998. Role of women in proper water supply and management. In ICID, The Tenth Afro-Asian Regional Conference Proceedings: Water and land resources development and management for sustainable use, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 19-24 July 1998. Volume II - C. Jakarta, Indonesia: Indonesian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (INACID) pp.C7:1-7.
Women in development ; Womans' status ; Water supply ; Water management ; Water use ; Water quality ; Social aspects / Asia / Africa / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: ICID 631.7 G570 ICI Record No: H022980)
2 Scherr, S. J.; Merrill-Sands, D. 1999. Taking stock of gender staffing in the CGIAR, 1998. Washington, DC, USA; Boston, MA, USA: CGIAR; Simmons Graduate School of Management. Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) iv, 28p. (CGIAR Gender Program working paper 20)
Gender ; Equity ; Research institutes ; Employment ; Human resource development ; Women in development ; Womans' status
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5157 Record No: H024513)
3 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2003. Poverty-focused smallholder water management: promoting innovative water harvesting and irrigation systems to support sustainable livelihoods in South Asia. Project completion and synthesis report. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). South Asia Regional Office. 50p.
Water management ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Poverty ; Drip irrigation ; Wastewater irrigation ; Watershed management ; Villages ; Households ; Womans status ; Case studies ; Development projects / South Asia / India / Tamil Nadu / Ramanathapuram / Udaipur district / Rajasthan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044366)
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4 van Koppen, Barbara; Derman, B.; Schreiner, B.; Durojaye, E.; Mweso, N. 2015. Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water: lessons from South Africa. In Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.457-506.
Human rights ; Water rights ; Water supply ; Water rates ; Water law ; Water use ; Water productivity ; Water management ; Institutions ; Gender ; Womans status ; Poverty ; Living standards ; Legal aspects ; Legislation ; Water policy ; Water allocation ; Domestic water ; Irrigation water ; Local government ; Government departments ; Sanitation ; Economic aspects ; Land reform / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047308)
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5 Upreti, B. R.; Shrestha, Gitta. 2017. The road to parliament: women in Nepal’s representative assemblies. In Kolas, A. (Ed.). Women, peace and security in Nepal: from civil war to post-conflict reconstruction. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.9-32.
Gender ; Women's participation ; Womans status ; Political systems ; Democracy ; Legislation ; Decision making / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048247)
6 Shrestha, Gitta; Upreti, B. R.; Kolas, A. 2017. Women, peace and security: the case of Nepal. In Kolas, A. (Ed.). Women, peace and security in Nepal: from civil war to post-conflict reconstruction. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.99-122.
Gender ; Women's participation ; Womans status ; Empowerment ; Political aspects ; Conflicts / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048248)
7 Stevenson, E. G. J.; Ambelu, A.; Caruso, B. A.; Tesfaye, Y.; Freeman, M. C. 2016. Community water improvement, household water insecurity, and women’s psychological distress: an intervention and control study in Ethiopia. PLoS ONE, 11(4):1-13. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153432]
Water supply ; Community development ; Water availability ; Households ; Water insecurity ; Gender ; Womans status ; Psychological factors ; Stress ; Socioeconomic environment ; Food insecurity ; Harvesting ; Villages / Ethiopia / Amhara Region / South Wello / South Gondar
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048338)
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153432&type=printable
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048338.pdf
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Background
Over 650 million people worldwide lack access to safe water supplies, and even among those who have gained access to ‘improved’ sources, water may be seasonally unreliable, far from homes, expensive, and provide insufficient quantity. Measurement of water access at the level of communities and households remains crude, and better measures of household water insecurity are urgently needed to inform needs assessments and monitoring and evaluation. We set out to assess the validity of a quantitative scale of household water insecurity, and to investigate (1) whether improvements to community water supply reduce water insecurity, (2) whether water interventions affect women’s psychological distress, and (3) the impacts of water insecurity on psychological distress, independent of socio-economic status, food security, and harvest quality.
Methods and Findings
Measures were taken before and one to six months after a community water supply improvement in three villages in rural northern Ethiopia. Villages similar in size and access to water sources and other amenities did not receive interventions, and served as controls. Household water insecurity was assessed using a 21-item scale based on prior qualitative work in Ethiopia. Women’s psychological distress was assessed using the WHO Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). Respondents were either female heads of household or wives of the heads of household (n = 247 at baseline, n = 223 at endline); 123 households provided data at both rounds. The intervention was associated with a decline of approximately 2 points on the water insecurity scale between baseline and endline compared to the control (beta -1.99; 95% CI’s -3.15, -0.84). We did not find evidence of impact of the intervention on women’s psychological distress. Water insecurity was, however, predictive of psychological distress (p <0.01), independent of household food security and the quality of the previous year’s harvest.
Conclusion
These results contribute to the construct validity of our water insecurity scale, and establish our approach to measuring water insecurity as a plausible means of evaluating water interventions. Improvements to community water supplies were effective in reducing household water insecurity, but not psychological distress, in this population. Water insecurity was an important predictor of psychological distress. This study contributes to an emerging literature on quantitative assessment of household water insecurity, and draws attention to the potential impact of improved access to water on women’s mental well-being.
Over 650 million people worldwide lack access to safe water supplies, and even among those who have gained access to ‘improved’ sources, water may be seasonally unreliable, far from homes, expensive, and provide insufficient quantity. Measurement of water access at the level of communities and households remains crude, and better measures of household water insecurity are urgently needed to inform needs assessments and monitoring and evaluation. We set out to assess the validity of a quantitative scale of household water insecurity, and to investigate (1) whether improvements to community water supply reduce water insecurity, (2) whether water interventions affect women’s psychological distress, and (3) the impacts of water insecurity on psychological distress, independent of socio-economic status, food security, and harvest quality.
Methods and Findings
Measures were taken before and one to six months after a community water supply improvement in three villages in rural northern Ethiopia. Villages similar in size and access to water sources and other amenities did not receive interventions, and served as controls. Household water insecurity was assessed using a 21-item scale based on prior qualitative work in Ethiopia. Women’s psychological distress was assessed using the WHO Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). Respondents were either female heads of household or wives of the heads of household (n = 247 at baseline, n = 223 at endline); 123 households provided data at both rounds. The intervention was associated with a decline of approximately 2 points on the water insecurity scale between baseline and endline compared to the control (beta -1.99; 95% CI’s -3.15, -0.84). We did not find evidence of impact of the intervention on women’s psychological distress. Water insecurity was, however, predictive of psychological distress (p <0.01), independent of household food security and the quality of the previous year’s harvest.
Conclusion
These results contribute to the construct validity of our water insecurity scale, and establish our approach to measuring water insecurity as a plausible means of evaluating water interventions. Improvements to community water supplies were effective in reducing household water insecurity, but not psychological distress, in this population. Water insecurity was an important predictor of psychological distress. This study contributes to an emerging literature on quantitative assessment of household water insecurity, and draws attention to the potential impact of improved access to water on women’s mental well-being.
8 Wilhelm, L. P. 2017. Sanitation, female literacy and child stunting: lessons for Swachh Bharat Mission. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 3. 8p.
Sanitation ; Gender ; Womans status ; Literacy ; Child development ; Human nutrition ; Maternity ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Defaecation ; Drinking water ; Water quality / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048387)
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_03_2017.pdf
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9 Keovilignavong, Oulavanh. 2019. Mining governance dilemma and impacts: a case of gold mining in Phu-Hae, Lao PDR. Resources Policy, 61:141-150. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.02.002]
Natural resources management ; Gold ; Mining ; Governance ; Local government ; Large scale systems ; Small scale systems ; Legal aspects ; Illegal practices ; Investment ; Households ; Living standards ; Strategies ; Villages ; Gender ; Womans status / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Xieng Khouang / Phu-Hae
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049429)
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This paper reexamines how local governments exercised the legal powers related to their official rights and duties to manage the impacts of both large-scale mining (LSM) and artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activities, and how local households perceived resource changes and what strategies they have adopted to adapt their livelihoods based on a case study of the Phu-Hae area, in Xieng Khouang province of northern Lao PDR. It reveals that local government agencies have insufficient capacity to exercise their legal powers to protect natural resources and local livelihoods, partly as a result of weak governance mechanisms. The impacts from LSM and ASM had degraded natural resources and changed local livelihood strategies, impacting particularly the poorer households and women who perceived ASM as a means to increase income and sustain precarious livelihoods, which was often as the expense of the environment and their health. It highlights the need to strengthen capacity to local government and technical training targeted at farming and non-farming livelihood activities for the local community as a way of facilitating alternative income sources for poor households involved with artisanal mining.
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