Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes”
The enactment of a new Constitution in 2015 in Nepal marked a shift to a representative system of federal governance. Earlier in 2002, the country’s Tenth Five Year Plan had committed to a core focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in national policies and governance. How do these two...
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| author | Khadka, Manohara Joshi, Deepa Uprety, Labisha Shrestha, Gitta |
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| description | The enactment of a new Constitution in 2015 in Nepal marked a shift to a representative system of federal governance. Earlier in 2002, the country’s Tenth Five Year Plan had committed to a core focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in national policies and governance. How do these two strategic shifts in policy align in the case of WASH projects in rural Nepal? Applying a feminist political lens, we review the implementation of WASH initiatives in two rural districts to show that deep-rooted intersectional complexities of caste, class, and gender prevent inclusive WASH outcomes. Our findings show that the policy framing for gender equitable and socially inclusive outcomes have not impacted the WASH sector, where interventions continue as essentially technical interventions. While there has been significant increase in the number of women representatives in local governance structures since 2017, systemic, informal power relationship by caste, ethnicity and gender entrenched across institutional structures and cultures persist and continue to shape unequal gender-power dynamics. This is yet another example that shows that transformative change requires more than just affirmative policies. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1320752025-12-08T10:29:22Z Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” Khadka, Manohara Joshi, Deepa Uprety, Labisha Shrestha, Gitta water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality social inclusion women caste systems ethnicity political aspects federalism institutions local government policies governance decision making rural areas The enactment of a new Constitution in 2015 in Nepal marked a shift to a representative system of federal governance. Earlier in 2002, the country’s Tenth Five Year Plan had committed to a core focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in national policies and governance. How do these two strategic shifts in policy align in the case of WASH projects in rural Nepal? Applying a feminist political lens, we review the implementation of WASH initiatives in two rural districts to show that deep-rooted intersectional complexities of caste, class, and gender prevent inclusive WASH outcomes. Our findings show that the policy framing for gender equitable and socially inclusive outcomes have not impacted the WASH sector, where interventions continue as essentially technical interventions. While there has been significant increase in the number of women representatives in local governance structures since 2017, systemic, informal power relationship by caste, ethnicity and gender entrenched across institutional structures and cultures persist and continue to shape unequal gender-power dynamics. This is yet another example that shows that transformative change requires more than just affirmative policies. 2023-09-25 2023-09-30T15:59:00Z 2023-09-30T15:59:00Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132075 en Open Access Frontiers Media Khadka, Manohara; Joshi, Deepa; Uprety, Labisha; Shrestha, Gitta. 2023. Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes”. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 5:1181734. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1181734] |
| spellingShingle | water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality social inclusion women caste systems ethnicity political aspects federalism institutions local government policies governance decision making rural areas Khadka, Manohara Joshi, Deepa Uprety, Labisha Shrestha, Gitta Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” |
| title | Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” |
| title_full | Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” |
| title_fullStr | Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” |
| title_short | Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” |
| title_sort | gender and socially inclusive wash in nepal moving beyond technical fixes |
| topic | water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality social inclusion women caste systems ethnicity political aspects federalism institutions local government policies governance decision making rural areas |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132075 |
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