Making sustainable sanitation work for women and men : integrating a gender perspective into sanitation initiatives
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Abstract:
This publication provides background information on the pressing need to integrate a gender perspective into the efforts to promote safe and sustainable sanitation. It provides guidance on how to mainstream gender into this sector. Access to safe toilets and sustainable sanitation are essential to ensure the health of citizens. It limits the health and economic burden of preventable illnesses, is a prerequisite for ensuring education for all, and for the promotion of economic growth in the poorest countries and regions of the world. Access to adequate sanitation is a matter of security, privacy, and human dignity. The costs of ignoring the need to address sanitation are far higher than the expense of providing sanitation and hygiene. Therefore all efforts are needed to provide the safe and sustainable sanitation to the 40% of the world’s population – 2.6 billion people - that lack such access at present.
Authors:
Dankelman, I.
,
Muylwijk, J.
,
Wendland, C.
,
Samwel, M.
Series Title:
Water and Sanitation : Facts and Experiences
Category:
Practice
Keywords:
gender
,
health
,
sanitation
,
sustainable development
Language:
eng
Organization:
WECF – Women in Europe for a Common Future
PAGE:
17
Place:
Utrecht [etc.]
Publisher:
WECF
Year:
2009
Right:
© 2009 WECF
Subject:
Health and Nutrition
Title:
Making sustainable sanitation work for women and men : integrating a gender perspective into sanitation initiatives