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Title: Gender Mainstreaming in Water Policy and Action in Brazil


1
Gender Mainstreaming in Water Policy and Action
in Brazil
  • III GEF Assembly-NGO Forum Turning Policy into
    Reality From the Ground UP
  • Cape Town, August 28th 2006

2
The National Water Resources Council and Plan
  • The Special Secretary of Women Policy has a seat
    on the National Water Resources Council (seat on
    one of its Technical Chambers is being
    negotiated)
  • Gender was included among the National Water
    Resources Plan Major Guidelines

3
CHALLENGES
  • The major challenges refer to effective
    implementation of gender mainstreaming in water
    policy and management
  • Low representation in water councils and river
    basin committees
  • Low level of capacity of decision-makers and
    civil society in relation to gender issues

4
System of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Water
Resources Policy Implementation in
Brazil(Ministry of Environment, October 2005)
5
STATE COUNCILS AND GENDER (6)
CIVIL SOCIETY
20
5
USERS
14
MUNICIPALITES
13
STATE ORGANISMS
67
6
0
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60
70
80
WOMEN
MEN
NUMBER OF EVALUATED COUNCILS

Fonte SIAPREH 2002/03
6
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7
STATE RIVER BASIN COMMITTEES DIRECTION (86)
8
FEDERAL RIVER BASIN COMMITTEES COMPOSITION AND
GENDER (4)
90
80
70
60
50
74
83
40
30
36
46
39
36
20
37
37
10
15
4
2
3
9
1
8
5
0
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FEDERAL RIVER BASIN COMMITTEES DIRECTION (4)
4
4
4
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WOMEN
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MEN
1
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VICE-
EXECUTIVE
PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
10
ACTION Steps Forward
  • Work within the National Water Resources Council
    and its Technical Chambers for the National Water
    Resources Plans implementation
  • Partnership with the National Special Secretary
    for Women Policy for the National Women Policies
    Plans implementation

11
ACTION
  • Capacity building and empowerment of
    decision-makers in the National Water Resources
    Management System
  • Partnership between Cap-Net and GWA for capacity
    building
  • Partnership with Federal Government,
    Universities, and Private Sector

12
Capacity Building
  • Training of Trainers (ToT) on Gender
    Mainstreaming on Integrated Water Resources
    Management Workshop, GWA, LA-WETnet, Cap-Net,
    CEF, MMA-SRH, in Penedo, Brazil, November 2003
  • ToT on Integrated Water Resources Management
    Workshop, Cap-Net Brasil, PUC-SP, CEF, in São
    Paulo, Brazil, October 2005

13
Capacity Building
  • Capacity Building in Rural Environmental
    Education, Ipanema, SalveaSerra, IMAH Paraiba do
    Sul River Basin, in Valenca, Brazil,
    February-March 2006
  • ToT on Integrated Water Resources Management
    Workshop, Cap-Net Brasil, UnB, ANA, in Brasilia,
    Brazil, June 2006

14
Ongoing Project
  • Implementation of Ecological Corridor in Selva da
    Concordia (Atlantic Rain Forest), with
    cross-cutting actions of capacity building for
    social inclusion, women and youth empowerment,
    income generation through agroforestry and other
    sustainable use of natural resources, in
    partnership with other NGOs, local communities,
    Federal and Municipal Governments, supported by
    the Ministry of Environment (PDA)

15
Proposed Projects
  • Capacity Building in Gender and IWRM Workshop, in
    partnership with the Special Secretary for Women
    Policy
  • Gender Mainstreaming in the National Capacity
    Building and Technological Extension Network in
    Environmental Sanitation, in partnership with the
    Ministry of Cities

16
Proposed Projects
  • Cilios nos Olhos DAgua, reforestation,
    biodiversity and water conservation, combined
    with capacity building for income generation
    through sustainable use of natural resources,
    under a gender perspective proposed to Petrobras
    in June 2006, to be executed in partnership with
    Cap-Net Brasil, GWA, RMA, IBAMA, UERJ, Emater-RJ,
    Nova Iguacu Municipal Government, TeleBrother
    Informatica, Empresa Nova Gerar, and private land
    owners

17
Gender and Water in the Brazilian Culture
18
Thank you!
  • Mariana Sell
  • Instituto Ipanema Brazil
  • http//www.institutoipanema.net
  • http//pt.genderandwater.org
  • http//www.capnet-brasil.org
  • marianasell_at_institutoipanema.net
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