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conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Umesh Pandey, Dipendra ShahiNepal Water for Health (NEWAH) developed and piloted a Gender and Poverty (GAP) approach to address gender and
caste inequity and poverty issues in its rural water supply and sanitation projects in Nepal. In order to assess whether
women and the poorest benefited from the GAP approach a methodology tool which is participatory and gender and poverty
sensitive was required. NEWAH chose the Methodology for Participatory Assessment (MPA) because of its participatory
approach and its ability to analyse large amounts of data statistically. However, NEWAH found that the tool was too time
consuming and did not meet all of NEWAH’s needs. The MPA was revised and modified for the Nepal context and renamed
the NEWAH Participatory Assessment (NPA). This paper describes how this participatory methodology can be used to
assess the sustainability of projects linked to gender and poverty sensitive issues. It also presents some of the findings from
NEWAH’s experience of using the NPA.
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