Gender & Inclusiveness

This project aims to shed light on the social and ecological impacts of water-based agricultural growth models in Morocco, Algeria, and India by looking at how contemporary processes of agricultural intensification in the two countries re-pattern (gendered) relations of agricultural production, focusing both on relations between different people and on those between people and water. It aims to do so through an examination of different possible farming and water use configurations in the two countries. Led by TARGA-AIDE/CRESC in partnership with Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Ain Chock Université Hassan II amongst others. This project has published many academic and non-academic  (e.g. news articles or interviews) outputs. The Moroccan partners have engaged in several educational activities and supervised students during fieldwork and training.

Two stories of change video's were created. Click to view the video's here and here. 

Learn more by visiting the (French) project website, or reaching out to Lisa Bossenbroek: [email protected].

The objective of this project is to understand the processes that influence the use and management of water storage and accumulation in and near homes in neighbourhoods prone to the reproduction of mosquito-borne diseases and vulnerable to climate change. The study focuses on the experiences of women in Barranquilla and Buenaventura in Colombia, who have been exposed to diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. The project is implemented by Fundación Evaristo García (lead), a CSO in Colombia, with partners in Colombia and IHE Delft. In its final stages, the project focussed on the dissemination of results. Amongst these activities was the open science fair in Buenaventura, which was open to the whole community and co-organized by the local women who received ethnographic training through the project. Additionally, a national workshop was held with ethnographers, as well as representation government, the private sector and civil society, in order to reflect.

This project is led by Instituto Superior Politecnico De Gaza (ISPG), and implemented in collaboration with NUST/Dabane Trust Zimbabwe, Acacia Water and IHE Delft. The project researches irrigation management and agro-economic practices to contribute to the empowerment of women and youth to participate in local socio-economic development and enhance food security in the Limpopo basin in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In doing so, the project aims to contribute to more inclusive and resilient livelihoods based on individual irrigated farming through increased understanding of the dynamic role, challenges and opportunities for men, women, poor and youth in individual irrigated farming from a socio-technical perspective. 

Learn more by reaching out to Sérgio Ponguane ([email protected]). 

In cities in the global South, policy makers, municipalities and local authorities face the challenge of improving access to potable water in rapidly growing low-income informal settlements. It is common that formal water utilities serve only between 40% and 70% of the urban population. In the rest of the city, services are provided by a large variety of small-scale water providers, which operate for profit or for philanthropic reasons. Initially labelled as disadvantaged informal sector, SSIPs are now praised as an innovative “micro entrepreneurial sector” and have being increasingly recognized as a viable alternative for water service provision in low-income areas. Their involvement, however, still raises many questions (e.g. under what conditions can SSIPs contribute to ensure more inclusive service provision).

The DUPC2 funded UNHIDE project (2016-2018) aimed to improve equitable access to water supply in informal settlements by increasing understandings of small-scale water service provisioning in Maputo (Mozambique), Lilongwe (Malawi) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Results of this research are disseminated through peer reviewed publications, MSc theses and project reports. Much of these publications have been done jointly with INHAbIT Cities.

Research findings of UNHIDE were translated into a short documentary on practices to access and provide water in informal settlements to disseminate our research findings to larger audiences, which you can view here. For more information, contact Ellen Zwerver [email protected]