Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

💦 Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce across the world, while remaining a daily basic need for all. Population growth, climate change and increasing water demand are all factors that are increasing pressure on our water ecosystems and fueling competition over these scarce resources. Ensuring that all users have access to sufficient and clean water and have a voice in deciding how the resources are managed is more important than ever and is at the center of integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach.

Gender and water have a particularly strong link. For sustainable water resources management ensuring meaningful participation of all stakeholders is critical. Guided by the Why Gender Matters in IWRM training manual, this course unravels the existing challenges faced by vulnerable groups when dealing with water, demonstrates how the two are connected and explains the benefits of addressing gender and water in an integrated way.

📋For policy- and decision makers, this course will explain why including gender perspectives in water management is important and how to move from gender mainstreaming ‘on paper’ to gender mainstreaming in practice. It will also draw on the global Sustainable Development Goal 6 data to demonstrate how much progress has been achieved in the topic since adoption of the SDGs in 2015. For practitioners, the course avails an abundance of case studies and lessons learned, supported by concrete examples and tools for gender integration in water management, which can be tailored and adapted to suit practitioners’ needs and working contexts. 

🌐 Language: English
📚 Structure: 5 modules
⏱️ Time: 25 hours
📅 Total time dedication: 5 weeks
🏛️ Institutions: Cap-Net, Global Water Partnership, Gender, Water Alliance, and UNEP-DHI
🏆 Certification: Upon approval of the quizzes at the end of each module

Find out more about the course here: https://cap-net.org/genderiwrm/