Asia and the Pacific - Regional perspectives.
The Asia–Pacific region is home to 4.7 billion people, or around 60% of the world’s population. It exhibits significant cultural, socioeconomic and environmental diversity, which shapes how people access, manage and benefit from natural resources, including water. Although gender dynamics vary across contexts, women and girls play a vital role in managing domestic and productivewater resources . Yet they face gender-specific water challenges across the region. These include: limited and unequal access; risks to health, safety, education, and economic and livelihood opportunities; under-representation in water governance ; and increasing threats from climate change. Highlighting such interlinkages is key, as the region is not on track to achieve any of the SDGs by 2030. A gender-responsive water future for the region could be achieved through a transformative approach that includes bottom-up and top-down policy processes to mainstream gender in policy-making, and to shift m...