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Gender and empowerment through WASH based on cases from Bangladesh
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Sara Ahrari, Ewout van GalenIt is often assumed that participation and representation of women in Water Sanitation and Hygiene
(WASH) committees will lead to their empowerment .In order to get a better insight into “How”
participation in the WASH committees can lead to empowerment of women, Simavi1 with support from
the Gender and Water Alliance conducted a study to get a better insight on “If”, “How” and “Why”
women’s empowerment has taken place as a result of participation in the WASH committees or other
WASH interventions in our programme in Bangladesh. The results of this study and recommendation for
WASH interventions are presented in this paper.
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School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
AHRARI, S. and VAN GALEN, E., 2017. Gender and empowerment through WASH based on cases from Bangladesh. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Local action with international cooperation to improve and sustain water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services: Proceedings of the 40th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK, 24-28 July 2017, Paper 2777, 6pp.Publisher
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WEDC_ID:22622Language
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