WWAP Toolkit on Sex-Disaggregated Water Data
© C. Schubert (CCAFS)
To address the considerable data gap on gender and water issues at the global level, in 2014 WWAP launched a groundbreaking project to develop and test sex-disaggregated indicators for the collection of global water data.
There is universal agreement in international and national policy circles that the collection of gender-disaggregated water indicators is of the utmost importance and priority. For years, UN agencies, NGOs, governments, activists, and water experts have been calling for a systematic approach to collecting gender-disaggregated water indicators. Nonetheless, a 2013 Survey by the UN Statistical Commission reveals that gendered water data is among the least available of national-level indicators.
The percentage of countries “regularly” producing gender-disaggregated statistics on:
Mortality | 85% |
Labor force | 83% |
Education & training | 81% |
Poverty | 71% |
Agriculture | 44% |
Access to sanitation | 39% |
Access to clean water | 37% |
Informal employment | 37% |
Media | 15% |
45.2% of countries do not produce any gender statistics related to water.
WWAP has therefore created a Toolkit for gender-sensitive water assessment and monitoring that provides users with a pioneering methodological framework and with key-indicators to assess the current status of freshwater resources on national, regional and global scale.The toolkit includes:
- list of high-priority gender–sensitive water indicators
- methodology for collecting sex-disaggregated data on water resources
- guidelines for data gathering
- questionnaires for field surveys
