World Water Day 2016: Give women a voice and listen to them
March 22, 2016 - The theme of today’s World Water Day 2016 is Water and Jobs, focusing on how enough quantity and quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods - and even transform societies and economies. Almost half of the world's workers - 1.5 billion people - work in water related sectors and nearly all jobs depend on water and those that ensure its safe delivery.
Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) at the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) – from 14-24 March 2016 at the UN in New York - continues its intensive lobby to increase the understanding of international bodies about the important role women play in enabling access to water and sanitation, and to combining implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 (gender equality) and 6 (ensure access to water and sanitation for all).
WfWP’s message is that women are experts, leaders and agents of change in the water-sustainable development nexus, thus play important roles in achieving equitable access to water for all and all uses. Therefore, it is effective to include women at all levels of decision making by setting quota of at least 40% women in water governing bodies and ensure their voices are actually heard in all phases.
The latter is crucial: WfWP not only wants women to be in water bodies and their heads counted, but it is even more important that those women raise their voices, and that they are being listened to.
Happy World Water Day!
Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) at the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) – from 14-24 March 2016 at the UN in New York - continues its intensive lobby to increase the understanding of international bodies about the important role women play in enabling access to water and sanitation, and to combining implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 (gender equality) and 6 (ensure access to water and sanitation for all).
WfWP’s message is that women are experts, leaders and agents of change in the water-sustainable development nexus, thus play important roles in achieving equitable access to water for all and all uses. Therefore, it is effective to include women at all levels of decision making by setting quota of at least 40% women in water governing bodies and ensure their voices are actually heard in all phases.
The latter is crucial: WfWP not only wants women to be in water bodies and their heads counted, but it is even more important that those women raise their voices, and that they are being listened to.
Happy World Water Day!
