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Interagency Task Force on Gender & Water (TFGW)
As part of the activities of
the International Year of Freshwater 2003, a new interagency Task
Force on Gender and Water was created to facilitate gender mainstreaming
in water-related United Nations policies and planning. The Task Force
unites gender and water focal points from
eighteen UN agencies, five non-UN entities and two observers. The
Water, Natural Resources and SIDS Branch of the
Division for
Sustainable Development functions as Task Manager of the Interagency
Task Force.
The Task Force promotes the integration of a gender perspective:
- in implementing the programme of work of the Commission on Sustainable Development in water and sanitation;
- in efforts to meet the relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on water and sanitation;
- into actions for the ‘Water for Life’ Decade (2005-15);
- into the World Water Assessment Programme and the World Water Development Report I and Report II;
- into the Human Development Report 2006 (focusing on water resources).
More information about the Interagency Task Force on Gender and Water, including its latest report and the list of its current members, can be found here.
Background Information on Gender & Water:
- Gender-Disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation: Expert Group Meeting Report
- Gender, Water and Sanitation: Case Studies on Best Practices
- Gender, Water and Sanitation: A Policy Brief
- A Gender Perspective on Water Resources and Sanitation, Wagadu, a Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, Feb 06. Earlier version presented as CSD-13 Background paper: A Gender perspective on Water Resources and Sanitation
- Resource Guide on Gender and IWRM (or Resource Guide: Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management) (available in four languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish)
- Why Gender Matters: A tutorial for water managers (available in English and Spanish)
- Discussion paper submitted by Major Groups at the 12th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
- Gender and Water: Reference Materials
- Factsheet on water and sanitation