Gender and Water Alliance

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Enabling women's and men's equitable access to and management of water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and environmental sustainability

Geschiedenis

The Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) is a global network dedicated to mainstream gender in water resources management. It does this through organising trainings, resources and tools development, knowledge dissemination, and partnerships in research and development for building capacity of stakeholders in the water sector.

It is registered as an Association under Dutch law and has 2300 members in more than 125 countries worldwide. Its membership is diverse and represents a wide range of capacities and expertise across all water sectors as well as from different stakeholder groups including government, grassroots organisations, NGOs, universities and research institutes, international agencies and individual consultants. More than eighty percent of the membership comes from a diversity of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

The Alliance has been financed by the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Additional earmarked finance has been generated by projects implemented with partner organisations.

The GWA Secretariat is located in Dieren, Netherlands