Gender and Water Governance in Ghana

Gender and Water Governance in Ghana
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Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105133190608
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Synopsis Gender and Water Governance in Ghana by : Thomas M. Akabzaa

Gender and Governance in Rural Services

Gender and Governance in Rural Services
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9780821381564
ISBN-13 : 0821381563
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Synopsis Gender and Governance in Rural Services by : The World Bank

'Gender and Governance in Rural Services' provides policy-relevant knowledge on strategies to improve agricultural and rural service delivery with a focus on providing more equitable access to these services, especially for women. It focuses India, Ethiopia, and Ghana, and focuses on two public services: agricultural extension, as an example of an agricultural service, and on drinking water, as an example of rural service that is not directly related to agriculture but is of high relevance for rural women. It provides empirical microlevel evidence on how different accountability mechanisms for agricultural advisory services and drinking water provision work in practice, and analyzes factors that influence the suitability of different governance reform strategies that aim at making service provision more gender responsive. It presents major findings from the quantitative and qualitative research conducted under the project in the three countries, which are analyzed in a qualitative way to identify major patterns of accountability routes in agricultural and rural service provision and to assess their gender dimension. The book is intended for use by a wide audience interested in agricultural and rural service provision, including researchers, members of the public administration, policy makers, and staff from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international development agencies who are involved in the design and management of reform efforts, projects, and programs dealing with rural service provision.

Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781135125042
ISBN-13 : 113512504X
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Synopsis Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South by : Leila M. Harris

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally—scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked to scarcity and crisis take hold, and become entrenched in policy and practice. The book also investigates ideas of marketization and privatization, increasingly prominent features of water governance throughout the global South, with particular attention to the varied implementation and effects of these governance practices. The final section of the volume analyzes participatory water governance, querying the disconnects between global discourses and local realities, particularly as they intersect with the other themes of interest to the volume. Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates, and policy makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world.

Gender and Governance in Rural Services

Gender and Governance in Rural Services
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0821376586
ISBN-13 : 9780821376584
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Synopsis Gender and Governance in Rural Services by :

It focuses India, Ethiopia, and Ghana, and focuses on two public services: agricultural extension, as an example of an agricultural service, and on drinking water, as an example of rural service that is not directly related to agriculture but is of high relevance for rural women.

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : 9781040120514
ISBN-13 : 1040120512
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Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance by : Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender and water governance, exploring how the use, management and knowledge of water resources, services and the water environment are deeply gendered. In water there is a recognized gender gap between water responsibilities and water rights and bridging this gap is likely to help achieve not just goals of equity but also those of sustainability. Building on a rich legacy of feminist water scholarship, the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance is a collection of reflections and studies that can be used as a prismatic lens into a thriving and ever proliferating array of feminist water studies. It provides a clear testimony of how hydrofeminism has evolved from rather instrumental gender and water studies to scholarship that uses feminist tools to pry open, critically reflect on and formulate alternatives to water development-as-usual. The book also shows how the community of feminists interested in studying water has diversified and expanded, from often white female scholars studying projects and gender relations in the so-called Global South, to a varied mix of scholars and activists theorizing from diverse geographical and political locations – prominently including the body. It is organized into five interconnected parts: Part I: Positionality and embodied waters Part II: Revisiting water debates: diplomacy, security, justice and heritage Part III: Sanitation stories Part IV: Precarious livelihoods Part V: New feminist futures Each of these parts brings out the gendered nature of water, shedding light on the often neglected care and unpaid labour of women and its relationship with extractivism and socioeconomic inequalities. The overall aim of the handbook is to apply social science insights to water governance challenges, creating synergies and linkages between different disciplines and scientific domains. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance is essential reading for students, scholars and professionals interested in water governance, water security, health and sanitation, gender studies and sustainable development more broadly.

Water is Life

Water is Life
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9781779222879
ISBN-13 : 1779222874
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Synopsis Water is Life by : Anne Hellum

This book approached water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue. Empirical case studies from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how coexisting international, national and local regulations of water and sanitation respond to the ways in which different groups of rural and urban women gain access to water for personal, domestic and livelihood purposes. The authors, who are lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists, explore how women cope in contexts where they lack secure rights, and participation in water governance institutions, formal and informal. The research shows how women - as producers of family food - rely on water from multiple sources that are governed by community based norms and institutions which recognise the right to water for livelihood. How these common pool water resources - due to protection gaps in both international and national law - are threatened by large-scale development and commercialisation initiatives, facilitated through national permit systems, is a key concern. The studies demonstrate that existing water governance structures lack mechanisms which make them accountable to poor and vulnerable water users on the ground, most importantly women. The findings thus underscore the need to intensify measures to hold states accountable, not just in water services provision, but in assuring the basic human right to clean drinking water and sanitation; and also to protect water for livelihoods.

Gender in Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation

Gender in Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation
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Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924067915144
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Synopsis Gender in Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation by : Christine van Wijk-Sijbesma

Herziene en bijgewerkte versie van 'Participation of women in water supply and sanitation: roles and realities' (1985). Onderzocht wordt de relatie tussen gender en duurzaam waterbeheer en de toepassing van gender in de drinkwater- en zuiveringssector en op hygiënisch gebied. Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van de ontwikkelingen in de periode 1980-1997.

Assessment of Water Governance in Ghana

Assessment of Water Governance in Ghana
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Total Pages : 38
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ISBN-10 : 2918639001
ISBN-13 : 9782918639008
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Synopsis Assessment of Water Governance in Ghana by : Global Water Partnership

Hydro-political assessment of water governance from the top-down and review of literature on local level institutions and practices in the Volta Basin

Hydro-political assessment of water governance from the top-down and review of literature on local level institutions and practices in the Volta Basin
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Publisher : IWMI
Total Pages : 55
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ISBN-10 : 9789290906360
ISBN-13 : 9290906367
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Synopsis Hydro-political assessment of water governance from the top-down and review of literature on local level institutions and practices in the Volta Basin by : Yaw Opoku-Ankomah

An “hydro-political” assessment of water governance in the Volta Basin is one of two preparatory activities intended to guide and inform the development of a generic methodological model for building local indigenous institutional principles into international/transboundary river basin institutional arrangements. This report details from a “top-down” perspective, the historical developments of water governance of the Volta River Basin, paying special attention to the economic, political and social dynamics of water management within the legal and institutional frameworks in the Ghana and Burkina Faso portions of the Volta basin. The findings are based primarily on literature review, interviews with some key professionals and to some extent, previous knowledge and field experience