Women and children bear the primary responsibility for water collection. They spend up to 6 hours each day collecting water.[i],[ii] In Africa and Asia, women and children walk an average of 3.7 miles a day just to collect water.[iii],[iv] Women and girls living without a toilet spend 266 million hours each day finding a place to go.[v] Globally, one third of all schools lack access to safe water and sanitation, causing girls to drop out. Every 90 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease.[vi]
These are just a few of many available hard facts illustrating how extremely important specific and dedicated attention to the link between water and women is.
In September 2015 UN Member States adopted the post-2015 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), determining their agendas and policies over the next 15 years. Women for Water Partnership advocates the importance of linking implementing SDG 5 - achieving gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, with implementation of SDG 6 - ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
WfWP’s vision is a water secure world in which women are heard and empowered to exercise their full potential to achieve equitable and sustainable development.
WfWP’s mission is to position women as active leaders, experts, partners and agents of change to realise access to safe water for all - including gender responsive sanitation – for all use; thus contributing to all SDG’s, especially goal 5 & 6.
WfWP's key messages are:
The WfWP Strategic Framework 2016-2020 outlines the vision, mission, strategy and expected outcomes of the activities of WfWP as well as the implications for WfWP’s membership, partnerships, governance and operations.
Who we are
[i] WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation. Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2015 Update and MDG Assessment
[ii] UN Water. UN-Water factsheet on water and gender, World Water Day 2013
[iii] World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO. (2015). Water for Women: Every woman counts. Every second counts
[iv] United Nations, OHCHR, UN-HABITAT, WHO. The Right to Water, Fact Sheet No. 35 (2010)
[v] Domestos WaterAid WSSCC. Why we can't wait. A report on sanitation and hygiene for women and girls (2015)
[vi] WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation. Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2015 Update and MDG Assessment
These are just a few of many available hard facts illustrating how extremely important specific and dedicated attention to the link between water and women is.
In September 2015 UN Member States adopted the post-2015 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), determining their agendas and policies over the next 15 years. Women for Water Partnership advocates the importance of linking implementing SDG 5 - achieving gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, with implementation of SDG 6 - ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
WfWP’s vision is a water secure world in which women are heard and empowered to exercise their full potential to achieve equitable and sustainable development.
WfWP’s mission is to position women as active leaders, experts, partners and agents of change to realise access to safe water for all - including gender responsive sanitation – for all use; thus contributing to all SDG’s, especially goal 5 & 6.
WfWP's key messages are:
- Water for women and women for water go together for empowerment and equality of women and sustainable water provision: Advocate the link between women, water and sustainable development in policies and implementation (SDGs 5 and 6);
- Advocate for inclusion of women on equal footing with men throughout all stages of projects, in a multi-stakeholder approach;
- Position women as agents of change, leaders, professionals, experts and partners on equal footing with men in water and sustainable development programmes to achieve equitable access to water for all for all uses;
- Advocate for women’s as well as women organisations’ access to financial investments and instruments;
- Promote the allocation of funds for software, i.e. capacity building, (vocational) training operation and maintenance, monitoring and evaluation at all levels for women and their organisations;
- Water needs gender disaggregated data for both qualitative and quantitative monitoring.
The WfWP Strategic Framework 2016-2020 outlines the vision, mission, strategy and expected outcomes of the activities of WfWP as well as the implications for WfWP’s membership, partnerships, governance and operations.
Who we are
[i] WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation. Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2015 Update and MDG Assessment
[ii] UN Water. UN-Water factsheet on water and gender, World Water Day 2013
[iii] World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO. (2015). Water for Women: Every woman counts. Every second counts
[iv] United Nations, OHCHR, UN-HABITAT, WHO. The Right to Water, Fact Sheet No. 35 (2010)
[v] Domestos WaterAid WSSCC. Why we can't wait. A report on sanitation and hygiene for women and girls (2015)
[vi] WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation. Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2015 Update and MDG Assessment
