Description: Empowering Women in Irrigation Management : The Sierra in Peru

Cover Image

QR Code

Empowering Women in Irrigation Management : The Sierra in Peru

This report tells the story of a gender pilot that was carried out in water users' organizations for irrigated agriculture in the Peruvian highlands or Sierra region. It was designed upon the request of Peru's ministry of agriculture, wit...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE AIR QUALITY CARBON CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNITY MEMBERS CROPS DECISION MAKERS DECISION MAKING ECONOMICS EMISSION REDUCTION ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY GENDER GENDER ACTION GENDER DIMENSION GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY GENDER FOCUS GENDER GAPS GENDER POLICY HOUSEHOLD CHORES INTEGRATION IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LABORERS LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT OF WATER NATURAL RESOURCES PARTICIPATION BY WOMEN PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN POLLUTION PRODUCERS PRODUCTIVITY QUALITY STANDARDS ROLE OF WOMEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UNITED NATIONS USE OF WATER WATER MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER USERS WOMEN IN POWER WOMEN LEADERS WOMEN MANAGERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17623824/empowering-women-irrigation-management-sierra-peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16590

Description
Summary:	This report tells the story of a gender pilot that was carried out in water users' organizations for irrigated agriculture in the Peruvian highlands or Sierra region. It was designed upon the request of Peru's ministry of agriculture, with the objective to strengthen the role of women in water management and to improve their condition as agricultural producers. At first, a gender diagnostic was carried out to better understand the different barriers that hinder the attendance and thus equality of participation of women in trainings and meetings. After this diagnostic, a discussion followed about the importance for a community of including women in water management. In response to these diagnostics and subsequent discussions, the water users resolved to set specific targets for becoming more inclusive organizations, and shaped the content and timing of their activities to allow a greater number of women to participate. The pilot, carried out between 2007 and 2009, improved women s technical skills, self-esteem and position in the water users organizations, and has raised awareness among the community members about women's specific needs and expectations related to water management for irrigated agriculture. The participatory methodology used in this pilot was designed with the support of the World Bank group gender action plan, and is currently being scaled up in the World Bank financed Sierra Irrigation Subsector Project (PSI Sierra).