Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes: Lessons from India - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9351500659 ISBN 13: 9789351500650

Publisher: SAGE, 2015

Synopsis

Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social, cultural and political involvement. This book aims to unpack the key elements of the WASH - gender nexus, examine these and recommend ways ahead for improved gender outcomes and WASH impact in India.

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Review

A new compendium on women’s relationship with water and sanitation exposes a series of harsh realities...that deal with the tricky and highly important subject of water and sanitation – and a welcome addition to the body of work available to practitioners...Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes, covers broad concepts – water and sanitation and their relationship with women. (The Business Line 2015-03-09)

An excellent documentation of work on gender relations in the water and sanitation sectors....  Shares various field experiences and fills the knowledge gap...It is good suggestive book for practitioners, students, academics, policy makers and all those with an interest in water, sanitation and hygiene sector. By reading the book, an individual develops knowledge... It is informative and readability is smooth...The style of presentation is good...It is a good resource book and has great relevance to development functionaries working in water, sanitation and hygiene.

(Journal of Rural Development, July- September 2015)

A timely and welcome addition...The book, documenting both quantitative and qualitative information on gender issues.

(Social Change, Volume 47 (Issue 1), March 2017)

About the Author

Aidan A. Cronin trained as a civil and environmental engineer and holds a PhD in Water Resources from Queens University, Belfast. He has worked in consultancy and then as a Senior Research Fellow at the Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health, University of Surrey, UK, where he spent five years researching the impact of anthropogenic activities on water quality in the EU and developing country settings. He then worked as a water and sanitation advisor at the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in their Public Health Section in Geneva, Switzerland, before joining UNICEF India in 2008. He managed the UNICEF water and sanita­tion programme in Odisha, India, up to September 2010 when he joined the New Delhi office as the water advisor. His research interests are in understanding the impact and contribution (health, nutrition, economic and social) of WASH provision and the processes needed to achieve these.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9351500659
• ISBN 13: 9789351500650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 341
• Editor: Cronin Aidan A., Mehta Pradeep K., Prakash Anjal