Resource Library for Gender: Women and Girls
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Web Resources
MyWASH - focus on Menstrual Hygiene Management
MyWASH is a social network on WASH and development. The site has a page of resources on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM), including case studies from Bangladesh, India, Kenya, and other countries and links to websites, videos and online forums on MHM.
Menstrual hygiene matters is an essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries. Nine modules and toolkits cover key aspects of menstrual hygiene in different settings, including communities, schools and emergencies. This resource was developed by WaterAid, SHARE and a number of collaborating organisations.
Women and girls with disabilities
The UN Enable site provides resources and links with a gender perspectives on disability and the disability perspective on the situation of women and girls with disabilities, including an on-line discussion group and network and a link to an interactive panel discussion on Cross-sectionalities of gender, disability, and development.
Women and girls with disabilities experience double discrimination, which places them at higher risk of gender-based violence, sexual abuse, neglect, maltreatment and exploitation.
Includes videos of staff from WaterAid country programs and partners talking about their approach to equity and inclusion. Also features links to WaterAid's E+I framework, resources and case studies of WaterAid's E+I work, including Gender and Children.
Literature Items
For Her It's the Big Issue (3029 KB)
The vital role of women in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions is undeniable. But even though women’s involvement in the planning, design, management and implementation of such projects and programmes has proved to be fruitful and cost-effective, the substantial benefits of this approach are not properly recognised. One result is that, all too often, women are not as centrally engaged in water and sanitation efforts as they should be.
Gender analysis frameworks (215 KB)
Includes references for a number of different gender analysis frameworks that might be useful in your work
Gender and Climate Change: Toolkit for women on climate change (17026 KB)
This toolkit on Gender and Climate Change is part of an important endeavour by Isis International to explore innovative and strategic ways to communicate gender justice and climate justice issues, especially from Southern feminist perspectives.
Gender and Essential Services in low-income countries (17250 KB)
(Women in Cities International, 2011) Report on the findings of the action research project Women’s Rights and Access to Water and Sanitation in Asian Cities. Carried out in Delhi, India from 1 February 2009 to 31 July 2011.
Gender, Culture and the Pacific (562 KB)
Yvonne Underhill-Sem (2011) Asia- Pacific Human Development Report Background Paper Series. This paper provides a deeper understanding of how culture in the Pacific impacts gender equality and human development. The analysis addresses two views that are widely held in the Pacific: 1) that gender is biologically determined, and 2) that culture is a sacred template should not be meddled with. Both these notions have attracted sound scholarly consideration in the Pacific, which has shown that rath
Menstrual hygiene in South Asia (423 KB)
Authors: Thérèse Mahon and Maria Fernandes. In order for women and girls to live healthy, productive and dignified lives, it is essential that they are able to manage menstrual bleeding effectively. This requires access to appropriate water, sanitation and hygiene services.
Menstrual Hygiene Management (397 KB)
Carrard, N (2011) A snapshot of lessons from learning events on menstrual hygiene management (part of AusAID's Learning Fund). During the learning events, participants talked about their efforts to break the silence, working with women and girls to ensure menstrual hygiene management needs are addressed through WASH programs.
MetGuide – Methodology for Participatory Assessments with Communities, Institutions and Policy Maker (934 KB)
A guide prepared by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre that offers practical tools for bringing gender and poverty-sensitive participation into WASH programs. The MetGuide is useful for communities, project staff, project managers, program designers, donors, researchers and policy makers.
Principles for working effectively with women and men - a short handout (160 KB)
School menstrual hygiene management in Malawi: more than toilets (32173 KB)
The ability to manage menstruation at school requires much more than just installing toilets. In this briefing note on the SHARE website, WASH Consultant Sally Piper Pillitteri, answers a call from WaterAid for “evidence from the field”. She provides data on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) for schoolgirls in Malawi, with a view to determining one or several recommendations for improved MHM in schools. This material is also of value to WASH professionals, policy makers, NGOs and education auth
Working Paper on Gender in Water and Sanitation (3495 KB)
A Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Working Paper published in 2010. For use by ministries, donors, citizens, development banks, NGOs and service providers. The paper looks at links between gender and WASH at the policy level, operational level, monitoring and evaluation, citizen engagement, behaviour change and HIV/AIDS. It showcases examples of good practice and provides checklists for practitioners.
World Development Report 2012 (Summary) (3636 KB)
The World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) 2012 is on 'Gender Equality and Development.' Central to the conclusions in WDR 2012 is WASH. The report's authors underlines three dangerous phases in a woman's life, girls at birth, birth to five years old and women of reproductive age and stresses the role of WASH at these times. This report has nine chapters in three parts. The full report and a rich set of data is available in all the UN languages at www.worldbank.org/wdr2012
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