This presentation provides information about the VWI Gender Journey.
The vision of the 2024 VWI Gender Journey is to explore how gender-oriented values shape outcomes of decision-making related to water in its multiple dimensions.
Why a gender journey?
● Making Every Drop Count clearly identifies youth, women and indigenous as groups that need to be more included in decision-making on water.
● RECOMMENDATION–Commit to gender equality and social inclusion in water resource management and raise the profile of these important issues in all relevant fora.
● During the VWI survey, gender equality was identified as a governance-focused value linked to social justice (instead of efficacy).
● To avoid reducing the complexity of a gender analysis into a social inclusion category – where the gendered impacts on women, men and LGBTQ+ can be better understood, including in their intersectional aspect.