Casarotto, Claudia

Kappel, Rolf

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wH2O: The Journal of Gender and WaterVolume 3 | Issue 1 Article 510-10-2017A half empty bucket: women’s role in thegovernance of water resources in ZambiaClaudia CasarottoCentre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)Rolf KappelCentre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/wh2ojournal/vol3/iss1/5For more information, please contact repository@pobox.upenn.edu.A half empty bucket: women’s role in the governance of water resources inZambiaKeywordsZambia, women's role, waterThis original research is available in wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water: http://repository.upenn.edu/wh2ojournal/vol3/iss1/5Water use in Zambia’s rural households is strongly determined far from the commercial utilities’ development of a piped water A half empty bucket: women’s role in the governance of water re-definition proposed by Saleth and Dinar (2000, p. 176): a “water institution sets administration.” The National Water Policy (2010, p. 19) stresses that “women shall be empow­opment of water resources and, specifically, in the use of water.”shall ”promote the participation of the community in water resources manage­ing to the management, development and use of water.” Art. 27.2.b mandates the Minister of Water with the “mainstreaming of gender into the policies, ment and use.” Art. 31.3.d mandates the Water Resources Management Au­thority to “provide mechanisms [...] for enabling the public and communities, in catchment.” Table 1. Functions of the Zambian institutions in the water sector (source: author’s elaboration of Uhlendahl et al. 2011)in the dependent variable. SPSS’s procedure to identify outliers hold. Also, the level of users’ payments allocated to the opera­amount of water is collected, since it is mainly the women’s emphasis given by Zambia’s Water Policy and Water Act to women’s empowerment and participation in issues and deci-The respondents’ knowledge of the exact functions of the vari­– –evident that women’s participation is significantly lower (Table institutions believe in the effectiveness of smallholders’ partici­and ZAWA also did not pass the smallholder’s test and re­sions taken by each institution (and in case this was “rarely” or “never” a followmore decentralization and participation. The women’s involve­tions’ functions. It would also foster participatory decisions that Arouna, Aminou, and Stephan Dabbert. “Determinants of domestic water use by a seemingly unrelated tobit approach.”Bennett, Elizabeth.“Gender, fisheries and development.”Bowers, Quentin. “Understanding the strategic decisions women make in farming families.”Filmer, Deon, and Lant H. Pritchett. “Estimating Wealth Effect Without Expen­of India.”Harris,Leila M. “Gender and emergent water governance: comparative over­devolution and marketization.”Hawkins,Roberta, and Joni Seager.“Gender and Water in Mongolia.”Makoni, Fungai S., Gift Manase, and Jerry Ndamba. “Patterns of domestic water use in rural areas of Zimbabwe, gender roles and realities.”–Manase, Gift, Jerry Ndamba, and Fungai Makoni. “Mainstreaming gender in inte­grated water resources management: the case of Zimbabwe.”Nyong, Anthony O., and Pavlos S. Kanaroglou. “A survey of household domestic arid Nigeria”. Potter, Robert B., and Khadija Darmane.“Contemporary social variations in house­“water stress”: The case of Greater Amman, Jordan.”Saleth, Rathinasamy M., and Ariel Dinar.“Institutional changes in global water sector: trends, patterns, and implications.”Shah, Anwar, and Sana Shah. “The New Vision of Local Governance and the Evolv­ing Roles of Local Governments,” in “Good Water Governance and IWRM in Zambia Chances.” –Upadhyay, Bhawana. “Water, poverty and gender: review of evidences from Nepal, India and South Africa.”van Wijk,Christine,Esther de Lang, and David Saunders.“Gender aspects in the management of water.”λ, 

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