How UNESCO addresses gender inequality in the water sector?

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Through the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) and the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), UNESCO collects water data disaggregated by sex, age, and other dimensions as a critical step in better understanding how water is used, managed, and distributed. It conducts gender analyses to identify and understand gender issues, and how to adequately address them in planning, projects, and policies.

Collecting water data disaggregated by sex, age, and other dimensions is a critical step in better understanding how water is used, managed, and distributed. By conducting gender analyses, UNESCO identifies gender issues, and how governments can adequately address them in planning, projects, and policies.

Within the framework of UNESCO's Priority Gender Equality Action Plan, UNESCO WWAP is working on "Water and Gender Equality" along four axes, including indicators, methodology and tools on water and gender; capacity building; field projects and communication and advocacy.

UNESCO WWAP coordinates the production of the UN World Water Development Reports, on behalf of UN-Water.
Location: 7 Pl. de Fontenoy-Unesco, 75007 Paris, France

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