Portraying Women Leadership in Water Cooperation
Ever wondered how women can make the difference?
Get inspired by the stories of these leading women: each story shows a different dimension of the central role women play in achieving the international agreed goals for water for all uses and sanitation.
Learn more from this knowledge platform where best practices of women empowerment in and for water and sanitation projects are shared so we can all understand the role of women in effective water governance at all levels.
This audio-visual library on Women and Water is an initiative of Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), UN Women and the UN Water for Life Decade Programme for Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC).
Get inspired by the stories of these leading women: each story shows a different dimension of the central role women play in achieving the international agreed goals for water for all uses and sanitation.
Learn more from this knowledge platform where best practices of women empowerment in and for water and sanitation projects are shared so we can all understand the role of women in effective water governance at all levels.
This audio-visual library on Women and Water is an initiative of Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), UN Women and the UN Water for Life Decade Programme for Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC).
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Svitlana Slesarenok, is Head of Black Sea Women’s Club in Ukraine. The Black Sea Women’s Club is a regional network of environmental NGOs and women leaders working in the basins of the main rivers (Danube, Dnipro, Dniester) falling into the Black Sea. The main activities of Svitlana and the network are: protection of water resources, biodiversity conservation, adaptation to climate change, cross border cooperation and sustainable management of the river’s basins, promotion of ecosystem approaches and gender balance in sustainable development of the Black Sea region.
Rose Makunzo Mwangi is a Soroptimist, she is a SI UN Representative to United Nation Environment Program (UNEP). Rose works with the Ministry of Agriculture in the Kenyan Government as a National Coordinator of the National Accelerated Agricultural Inputs Access Program. She has a MSc. in Applied Environmental Economics and is currently undertaking a PhD in Disaster Management (Food Security). She is a founding member of New Kitisuru Residents Association and Kenya Professional Women in Agriculture and Environment.
Dr. Deepthi Wickramasinghe is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her main scientific interests include water conservation, wetland ecology and Integrated Water Resources Management. She has published many research papers, authored several books and participated in and organized various local and international level water related events. She is the Executive Secretary of Sri Lanka Water Partnership, a member of Global Water Partnership and an active member of NetWwater, Network of women Water Professionals of Sri Lanka.
Salamatu Garba, the founder and Executive Director of the Women Farmer's Advance Network (WOFAN), a nongovernmental organization founded in Nigeria since 1993 which has provided a wide range of services for rural communities to promote economic, social and political empowerment strongly believes with indisputable evidence that when you give women the right skills and the platform, you can trust them to adequately deal with WASH problems in their community in a sustainable way. Salamatu shares her experience with you.
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Nomvula Mokonyane is the Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation of South Africa. This Ministry is created to combat water issues and serious sanitation problems across the country. She shares her ideas on women’s active role in water.
Ursula Schaefer-Preuss is the Chair of the Global Water Partnership. She is an economist who has been engaged in the field of development policy for more than 35 years. She was the Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development. Prior to joining ADB, Dr. Schaefer-Preuss was Director General of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). She has also held senior posts in the Inter-American Development Bank and the German Permanent Mission to the UN.
Ethne Davey is the Chairperson for Amaza Bantu, a private company whose shareholders implement rural water supply and sanitation projects. She is the former chair of Gender & Water Alliance and works a lot with the grassroots. She has been outspoken on the issue of delivery of water services to poor rural communities. Ethne has shown that leadership is not about power or position, but about being inclusive and listening to the voices of the quiet majority. She served on the National Water Advisory Committee which reports to the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry. She has also served on the Water Research Commission Sub-Committee dealing with the sustainability of water projects in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the first members of the National Water Tribunal.
Patricia Wouters, an International water lawyer, currently heads up the new China International Water Law programme at Xiamen Law School (China); she was the founding Director of the Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, under the auspices of UNESCO at the University of Dundee (Scotland), with extensive experience in the ‘legal side of water’. While Patricia believes that there is plenty of room at the top for women in the water sector, she finds that there is real need for more women in the sector; finding resources to support more women to pursue higher education in this field, especially in water law, would be an important investment in enhancing cooperation around the world.
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