Infrastructure working group

Identify gender constraints and Opportunities Cultural Low literacy levels Different Biological needs Lack of financial capacity No access to micro financing Women depend on husbands for financial capacity Low level skills among women Too much household workload for women

Opportunities Gender advocacy on the increase by several organisations Plenty of data available on gender in regard to water and sanitation implementation and management More budgetary transparent allocation

Propose Gender Responsive Components of a Project for Priority Sector Planning stage Design stage Operation and maintenance Socio- mobilization Monitoring and evaluation

What Levels of Analysis are required to Ensure that the Gender Responsive Project Components are Developed Precise and specific indicators Measure and evaluate gender participation at every level of the project cycle.

Make a convincing arguments to the Cabinet on your Proposal Health benefits spreads to the entire household Economic benefits (time for other activities) Cost benefits (O & M costs go down) Socio- economic benefits (recognition of women in the society) Sustainability of infrastructure