Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh

Bangladesh is the 7th most climate vulnerable country, and the impacts of this are largely shaped by water-related challenges in this deltaic country. The gendered dimensions of these challenges are poorly understood and addressed in technical interventions designed to mitigate and enable adaptation...

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Main Authors: Sarker, Mou Rani, Singh, Neha, Joshi, Deepa
Format: Ponencia
Language:Inglés
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137758
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description Bangladesh is the 7th most climate vulnerable country, and the impacts of this are largely shaped by water-related challenges in this deltaic country. The gendered dimensions of these challenges are poorly understood and addressed in technical interventions designed to mitigate and enable adaptation to climate impacts. A focus on gender (read women) is often limited to WASH interventions, or at best extends to women’s representation in irrigation water user associations. These interventions fail to address the complexity of interlinked domestic and productive water challenges as well as deep-rooted masculinities in the institutional dynamics of managing water crises. In this presentation, we discuss a water justice framework that combines quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how intersectional gendered inequalities impact water governance and climate resilience. This includes exploring how the structures and cultures of formal and informal institutions shape masculinities in water access, availability and control. In this panel, we will discuss an analytical framework that allows exploring the multiple drivers - socio-cultural, economic, political, and institutional which perpetuate structural gendered-water inequalities from household to policy levels. Addressing transformative water justice as the framework will demonstrate requires paying attention to these complexities, as well as to intersectional disparities that crosscut gendered inequalities.
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spelling CGSpace1377582024-11-07T09:36:14Z Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh Sarker, Mou Rani Singh, Neha Joshi, Deepa climate change food systems sustainability frameworks women's participation Bangladesh is the 7th most climate vulnerable country, and the impacts of this are largely shaped by water-related challenges in this deltaic country. The gendered dimensions of these challenges are poorly understood and addressed in technical interventions designed to mitigate and enable adaptation to climate impacts. A focus on gender (read women) is often limited to WASH interventions, or at best extends to women’s representation in irrigation water user associations. These interventions fail to address the complexity of interlinked domestic and productive water challenges as well as deep-rooted masculinities in the institutional dynamics of managing water crises. In this presentation, we discuss a water justice framework that combines quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how intersectional gendered inequalities impact water governance and climate resilience. This includes exploring how the structures and cultures of formal and informal institutions shape masculinities in water access, availability and control. In this panel, we will discuss an analytical framework that allows exploring the multiple drivers - socio-cultural, economic, political, and institutional which perpetuate structural gendered-water inequalities from household to policy levels. Addressing transformative water justice as the framework will demonstrate requires paying attention to these complexities, as well as to intersectional disparities that crosscut gendered inequalities. 2023-10 2024-01-16T02:43:53Z 2024-01-16T02:43:53Z Presentation https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137758 en Open Access application/pdf Sarker, M. R., Singh, N., Joshi, D. (2023). Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh: International Rice Research Institute. CGAIR Gender Conference, New Delhi, India.
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food systems
sustainability
frameworks
women's participation
Sarker, Mou Rani
Singh, Neha
Joshi, Deepa
Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh
title Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh
title_full Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh
title_fullStr Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh
title_short Navigating the Storm: Water Justice in Coastal Bangladesh
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topic climate change
food systems
sustainability
frameworks
women's participation
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