WWAP assists Member States with by providing the following services:

• A capacity development program on gender analysis for water resources assessments and projects;

• Ad hoc trainings and workshops on sex-disaggregated water data collection and analysis, and gender sensitive indicators; and

• Development of gender transformative activities in water-related programmes and projects

The knowledge resulting from WWAP capacity development on water and gender will help inform the regional and global monitoring towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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For more information, please visit: www.unesco.org/water/wwap/

or contact:Michela MilettoWWAP Deputy Coordinator and Focal Point for Gender m.miletto@unesco.org

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Sex-disaggregated indicators for water assessment monitoring and reporting

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Guidelines on how to collectsex-disaggregated water dataVasudha Pangare

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Questionnaire for collectingsex-disaggregated water data

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Water access, availability and management are drivers of sustainable development.

While there has been progress across the world, gender inequality persists with regard to who participates in, contributes to and benefits from water resources management.

To address the gender imbalance in responsibilities, powers and rights, we need to understand the underlying drivers and bring about changes in water policy, planning and strategies.

The ripple effect of engendering water

• In Ghana, a 15-minute reduction in water collection time increased girls’ school attendance by 8% to 12%

• It is estimated that some 40 billion mostly women-hours per year are spent fetching water in sub-Saharan Africa

• Estimates suggest that cutting just 15 minutes off the walking time to a water source could increase under-five child survival by 11%

• In Bangladesh, where 80% of factory workers are young women, an intervention allowing women to safely purchase menstrual cloth and pads reportedly saw absenteeism drop from 73% to 3%

Disaggregating water data by sex is crucial to informgender-sensitive water policies, in light of the globalcommitments to gender equality of the 2030Agenda for Sustainable Development.

To address data gap on gender and water issues at global level, WWAP created an innovative toolkit in 2014 for the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated water data. The toolkit was developed by a team of 35 international gender experts who identified 40 gender-sensitive priority indicators.

WWAP Toolkit includes:• A list of high-priority, gender-sensitive water indicators

covering water governance, safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, decision-making and knowledge production, transboundary water resources management, and income generation for industrial and agricultural uses

The methodology is based on two main pillars:

1. Combining quantitative, qualitative and perceptive data; 2. “Lifting the roof off the households”: Consider the

responses of each member of the household, female and male.

WWAP Toolkit is recognized as an effective tool for sex-disaggregated water data collection and also in view of the achievements of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.

Official recognition of the Toolkit

• 2016: WWAP Toolkit is included in the list of guidelines or other tools for integrating gender considerations into climate change related activities described in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

• 2016: the 60th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) recognized the importance of sex-disaggregated data, and of the WWAP Toolkit.

• 2015: WWAP Toolkit is adopted as gender analysis tool for GEF IW projects (IW-LEARN).

• 2015: WWAP indicators are included in the list of indicators identified for SDG 6 on water and sanitation.

• 2014: The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) officially recognized WWAP indicators to be used in water assessments and monitoring.

Governments are expected to take ownership and establish national frameworks for the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this regard, countries have the primary responsibility to monitor the progress in implementing the SDGs, which will require regular collection of accessible, good quality disaggregated data.

Yet, there is a need to strengthen capacity at the national level with respect to the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated water data, as evidenced by pilot testing conducted by WWAP in different regions of the world.

WWAP responds to this challenge with a capacity development programme that teaches how to collect and process sex-disaggregated water data, and how to critically analyse these data to inform national and regional water policy frameworks, planning and strategic actions.

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Achieving the 2030 Agenda: A new global challenge

WWAP’s initiative on gender-sensitive water monitoring, assessment and reporting