Essays about: "equality, water"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 essays containing the words equality, water.

  1. 16. The Effects of Household Water Access on Employment in SSA: Is There a Gender Difference?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Andrea Berggren; Anders Dankvardt; [2013-03-28]
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    Abstract : Several of the Millennium Development Goals stress the importance of working for improved drinking water, gender equality and employment to improve the life of people as well as creating growth in developing countries. Literature suggests investments in infrastructure increase the probability of employment. READ MORE

  3. 17. Participation of women in irrigation and water management in Sindh on-farm water management and irrigation system rehabilitation project.

    University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

    Author : Abdullah Soomro; [2013]
    Keywords : Gender; Women; Irrigation; Water management; Participation; Sindh;

    Abstract : Gender is a behavioural norm attributed to men and women in a given social system. Gender defines the role of women socially and in day to day life, especially when it comes to the access to the safe water. However, their participation is very little. READ MORE

  4. 18. Involvement without Influence? : Theoretical and Organisational Premises for Women´s Empowerment in Development Programmes

    University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

    Author : Moa Cortobius Fredriksson; [2011]
    Keywords : Women‟s empowerment; development programmes; gender approach; collectivity; bottom-up influence; involvement of men; resource and responsibility allocation; integration;

    Abstract : The objective of the thesis is to discuss how the theoretical and organisational premises of the gender approaches of development programmes affect their possibilities to empower women and to enhance gender equality. This will be done through a study of the gender approaches of six development programmes for democratic and economic governance in the water and sanitation sector located in Angola, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay and Philippines respectively. READ MORE

  5. 19. Policy Outcomes on Water-Related Ecosystem Services in an Agricultural Landscape in South Africa

    University essay from Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Julia Wesely; [2010]
    Keywords : water policy; ecosystem services; South Africa; equality; agricultural landscape;

    Abstract : Water governance in South Africa is challenged by natural as well as socially constructed water scarcity. 15 years after the transition from Apartheid to the new democratic era, this paper shows that water resources are still distributed along racial lines. READ MORE

  6. 20. Decentralizing the Water Sector - A Case Study on the Namibian Water Management Strategy -

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Cecilia Schubert; [2008]
    Keywords : Namibia; decentralization; Integrated Water Resource Management; IWRM; Basin Management Committees; community participation; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : A water crisis depends on more than a lack of supply, it is also about policies and management. Namibia, a Southern African country, has chosen a decentralisation-strategy, including privatisation and community management, in order to improve the efficiency, equality and sustainability, in the water sector. READ MORE