Volume 4, Number 1
April 1998

Gender and Water Management Workshop at IIMI

On September 15-19, 1997, a workshop on "Gender and Water Management in Irrigated Areas" was organized by the International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) and held in Sri Lanka. The workshop was held to formulate a state-of-the-art overview of the important concepts, policies, and problems in the broad arena of women and water, and to help develop a research and action agenda that will be carried forward by the Women and Water Program at IIMI. The following papers were presented and will be published in the near future. If you would like a copy of a paper in the meantime, please contact the author.

Allocation and Poverty Alleviation: A Gendered Analysis of Inclusion and Exclusion of the Resource-Poor in Vesting Water Rights, by Barbara van Koppen, Dept. of Irrigation and Soil and Water Conservation, Wageningen Agricul-tural University. Barbara.vankoppen@users.tct.wau.nl.

Strategies to Incorporate Gender in Irrigation Planning, by Eva H. Jordans, Sustainable Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Eva.Jordans@fao.org.

Women and Smallholder Irrigation Development in Africa: Constraints and Opportunities, by Felicity Chancellor. fc@hrwallingford.co.uk.

Gendered Incentives and Informal Institutions: Women, Men and the Management of Water, by Frances Cleaver, Development and Project Planning Centre, University of Bradford. F.D.Cleaver@bradford.ac.uk.

Rice Cultivation and Gambian Women, by Judith A. Carney, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles. carney@geog.ucla.edu.

Identifying Gender Aspects of New Irrigation Management Policies, by Margreet Z. Zwarteveen, IIMI-MEX@ CGNNET.COM.

What Gender Analysis Can Contribute to Irrigation Research and Practice in Developing Countries: Some Issues, by Rekha Mehra and Simel Esim, International Center for Research on Women. rekha@icrw.org.

Gendered Participation in Water Management: Issues and Illustrations from Water Users' Associations in South Asia, by Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen. r.meinzendick@cgiar.org.

Mexico's Two Principal Hydro-Agricultural Policies from a Gender Perspective, by Sonia Davila-Poblete, Mexican Inst. for Water Technology. eamm@dunsun.dti.uaem.mx.