Egypt: Empowering Women’s Participation in Community and Household Decision-making in Water and Sanitation
This study documents how the Better Life Association for Comprehensive Development (BLACD) used a gender-integrated approach as an integral part of the water and sanitation project they implemented in the village of Nazlet Fargallah in Upper Egypt from January 2003 to December 2004. The project was aimed at approximately 700 households without sanitary facilities; 60 per cent of the people targeted were women (BLACD, 2002). Most of the residents work as casual labourers in agriculture and have little predictable income. There is one primary school and one health unit in the village. Prior to the project, more than half of the 1500 households in Nazlet Fargallah lacked latrines and access to clean and reliable running water. The most common preventable illnesses, including diarrhoea and kidney disease, were directly correlated with the lack of potable water and poor sanitation practices. Women are responsible for providing their families with water for drinking and washing and for waste disposal. Before the project, their main water source was communal hand pumps.
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Contributor:
Anuradha Bhattacharjee
Published Date:
May 5, 2008
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