Gender issues in water and sanitation programmes lessons from India

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Joke Muylwijk -- Introduction: achieving the desired gender outcome in water and sanitation / Anjal Prakash, Aidan Cronin and Pradeep K. Mehta -- Conceptual underpinning -- Accelerating gender outcomes : the wash sector / Sunetra Lala, Malika Basu, Jyotsna and Aidan Cronin -- Women and water: vulnerability from water shortages / Yusuf Kabir, Niranjan Vedantam and M. Dinesh Kumar -- Crossing boundaries : gender and IWRM in education and research / Anjal Prakash and Chanda Gurung Goodrich -- Gender and wash: capacity-building initiatives / Swati Sinha -- Case studies: water -- Gender issues in watershed management / Suhas P. Wani , Anantha K.H., Sreedevi, T.K -- Gender and governance : a case of Jalswarajya project / Aditya Bastola -- Unleashing the gender differentials in water management : the rural milieu / Pradeep K. Mehta and Niti Saxena -- The high fluoride burden and tribal women : occurrence and remedy / Tapas Chakma, Gregor von Medeazza, Sanjay Singh and Pradeep Meshram -- Women's voice in water resource management / K.A.S. Mani, Vallaperla Paul Raja Rao, Madhukar Reddy and Ch. Ram Babu -- Leadership and participation : role of gender / Sudhir Prasad, Satyabrata Acharya and Somnath Basu -- Case studies: sanitation -- Enabling gendered environment for watershed management / Eshwer Kale and Dipak Zade -- Women-led total sanitation : saving lives and dignity / Gregor von Medeazza, Megha Jain, Ajit Tiwari, Janardan Prasad Shukla and Nisheet Kumar -- Innovative approaches in communication / Ajit K. Saxena, Shailesh Mujumdar and Gregor von Medeazza -- Liberty from shame : accelerating sanitation with ASHAs / Amit Mehrotra and Ajay Singh -- Conclusion -- Conclusions and ways forward / Aidan Cronin, Anjal Prakash and Pradeep K. Mehta -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.