En el proyecto de Bolivia WATCH estamos utilizando el marco Multidimensional de pobreza creado por ASDI que servirá para analizar quiénes son más vulnerables frente a la situación actual de la cuenca y frente a posibles futuros fenómenos climáticos, debido a la pobreza y la falta de acceso a recursos. El analisis de pobreza se... Continue Reading →
Stress on water resources is an increasing concern as populations are growing, incomes are rising, and food demand is increasing. These resources are already over-committed. Water deprivation has consequences on people’s well-being. Access to water and the existence of poverty are often interlinked. Water management analyses often miss this connection because they operate at a... Continue Reading →
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), The Asia Foundation (TAF), and Winrock are collaborating on a project to integrate gender and poverty considerations with water security planning. Focused on the Stung Chinit basin in Cambodia, this project will create a poverty framework for the region and incorporate it into a water resources model using SEI’s... Continue Reading →
During my involvement in the Gender and Social Equality program, we decided to do a pilot study in applying poverty and equality aspects in the Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) model. It resulted in a great project working with local partners and doing a lot of model disaggregation! This pilot is the basis for our... Continue Reading →
The management of water resources is often done at the basin or sub-basin scale, which is often not detailed enough to adequately evaluate the water needs and challenges of various social groups. The design of water management analysis is often based on sectors like agriculture, urban, and energy, rather than on the individuals and families... Continue Reading →
As part of SEI’s Gender and Social Equality program (GSE), we’ve been exploring ways to analyze water collection time in Ethiopia. Based on this PLOS ONE journal article, we obtained women and children’s time in collecting water and use it to create a WEAP tutorial chapter. Check out the tutorial chapter posted on the WEAP website... Continue Reading →
How can we encourage more active participation of women in capacity building activities? This brief describes a series of steps that trainers can take to incorporate more inclusive practices with respect to gender. Check out the brief here!
The SEI Gender and Social Equity Program is evaluating how to mainstream Gender and Social Equity (GSE) aspects into the modeling activities. A guidance document was developed (link included below) containing the recommended steps in mainstreaming G&SE in model based projects. The guidance focuses on three essential aspects: 1) integrating gender into technical work, 2)... Continue Reading →
The SEI-US Water Group has been supporting water managers around the world in their planning and decisions making processes using the Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) software (Yates et al., 2005). WEAP allows water manager to evaluate long-term planning options under climate change and other risks using scenario analysis. As part of the Gender and... Continue Reading →