Gender Mainstreaming in Water Policy and Action in Brazil

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Gender Mainstreaming in Water Policy and Action
in Brazil

• III GEF Assembly-NGO Forum Turning Policy into
  Reality From the Ground UP
• Cape Town, August 28th 2006

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The National Water Resources Council and Plan

• The Special Secretary of Women Policy has a seat
  on the National Water Resources Council (seat on
  one of its Technical Chambers is being
  negotiated)
• Gender was included among the National Water
  Resources Plan Major Guidelines

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CHALLENGES

• The major challenges refer to effective
  implementation of gender mainstreaming in water
  policy and management
• Low representation in water councils and river
  basin committees
• Low level of capacity of decision-makers and
  civil society in relation to gender issues

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System of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Water
Resources Policy Implementation in
Brazil(Ministry of Environment, October 2005)
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STATE COUNCILS AND GENDER (6)
CIVIL SOCIETY
20
5
USERS
14
MUNICIPALITES
13
STATE ORGANISMS
67
6
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
WOMEN
MEN
NUMBER OF EVALUATED COUNCILS

Fonte SIAPREH 2002/03
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STATE RIVER BASIN COMMITTEES DIRECTION (86)
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FEDERAL RIVER BASIN COMMITTEES COMPOSITION AND
GENDER (4)
90
80
70
60
50
74
83
40
30
36
46
39
36
20
37
37
10
15
4
2
3
9
1
8
5
0
9
FEDERAL RIVER BASIN COMMITTEES DIRECTION (4)
4
4
4
3
WOMEN
2
MEN
1
0
0
0
VICE-
EXECUTIVE
PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
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ACTION Steps Forward

• Work within the National Water Resources Council
  and its Technical Chambers for the National Water
  Resources Plans implementation
• Partnership with the National Special Secretary
  for Women Policy for the National Women Policies
  Plans implementation

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ACTION

• Capacity building and empowerment of
  decision-makers in the National Water Resources
  Management System
• Partnership between Cap-Net and GWA for capacity
  building
• Partnership with Federal Government,
  Universities, and Private Sector

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Capacity Building

• Training of Trainers (ToT) on Gender
  Mainstreaming on Integrated Water Resources
  Management Workshop, GWA, LA-WETnet, Cap-Net,
  CEF, MMA-SRH, in Penedo, Brazil, November 2003
• ToT on Integrated Water Resources Management
  Workshop, Cap-Net Brasil, PUC-SP, CEF, in São
  Paulo, Brazil, October 2005

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Capacity Building

• Capacity Building in Rural Environmental
  Education, Ipanema, SalveaSerra, IMAH Paraiba do
  Sul River Basin, in Valenca, Brazil,
  February-March 2006
• ToT on Integrated Water Resources Management
  Workshop, Cap-Net Brasil, UnB, ANA, in Brasilia,
  Brazil, June 2006

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Ongoing Project

• Implementation of Ecological Corridor in Selva da
  Concordia (Atlantic Rain Forest), with
  cross-cutting actions of capacity building for
  social inclusion, women and youth empowerment,
  income generation through agroforestry and other
  sustainable use of natural resources, in
  partnership with other NGOs, local communities,
  Federal and Municipal Governments, supported by
  the Ministry of Environment (PDA)

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Proposed Projects

• Capacity Building in Gender and IWRM Workshop, in
  partnership with the Special Secretary for Women
  Policy
• Gender Mainstreaming in the National Capacity
  Building and Technological Extension Network in
  Environmental Sanitation, in partnership with the
  Ministry of Cities

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Proposed Projects

• Cilios nos Olhos DAgua, reforestation,
  biodiversity and water conservation, combined
  with capacity building for income generation
  through sustainable use of natural resources,
  under a gender perspective proposed to Petrobras
  in June 2006, to be executed in partnership with
  Cap-Net Brasil, GWA, RMA, IBAMA, UERJ, Emater-RJ,
  Nova Iguacu Municipal Government, TeleBrother
  Informatica, Empresa Nova Gerar, and private land
  owners

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Gender and Water in the Brazilian Culture
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Thank you!

• Mariana Sell
• Instituto Ipanema Brazil
• http//www.institutoipanema.net
• http//pt.genderandwater.org
• http//www.capnet-brasil.org
• marianasell_at_institutoipanema.net