Showcasing CIWA’s Male Champion’s For Women’s Empowerment: An Initiative To Engage Men As Champions Of Gender Equality Within The Transboundary Water Context

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Showcasing CIWA’s Male Champion’s For Women’s Empowerment: An Initiative to Engage Men as Champions of Gender Equality within the Transboundary Water Context - CIWA Special Session

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Oct 30, 2024 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM(Africa/Johannesburg)

20241030T1030 20241030T1400 Africa/Johannesburg Showcasing CIWA’s Male Champion’s For Women’s Empowerment: An Initiative to Engage Men as Champions of Gender Equality within the Transboundary Water Context - CIWA Special Session Convener Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA) Session Summary The Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA) is a World Bank Trust Fund that facilitates transboundary cooperation on the management of shared water bodies within sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As part of its commitment to advancing gender equality within the transboundary water context, CIWA has provided support to address challenges women face at the institutional and program level to facilitate equitable and inclusive participation in transboundary water management processes. CIWA recognizes that it is operating in a challenging environment when it comes to promoting gender equality. This is because it is a sector where men dominate as leaders and decision-makers. In recognition of the key role men play as stakeholders, influencers, and decision-makers in water institutions and local organizations, CIWA launched the Male Champions for Women's Empowerment (MCWE) to work directly with men to identify ways to apply their influence to overcome gender inequalities and to effect positive change on women's empowerment within the transboundary water context at multiple levels and across multiple domains. By working as a collective platform, the MCWE seeks to facilitate actions Male Champions can take to overcome gender inequalities at the continental, regional, national and local level within the transboundary water sphere in SSA. Concretely, the MCWE will be working with Male Champions through a diversity of actions to advance gender equality within decision-making teams and processes and more broadly within the institutional and program cont ... Virtual 4 25th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium waternet@waternetonline.org

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Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA)

Session Summary

The Cooperation in International Waters in Africa (CIWA) is a World Bank Trust Fund that facilitates transboundary cooperation on the management of shared water bodies within sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As part of its commitment to advancing gender equality within the transboundary water context, CIWA has provided support to address challenges women face at the institutional and program level to facilitate equitable and inclusive participation in transboundary water management processes. CIWA recognizes that it is operating in a challenging environment when it comes to promoting gender equality. This is because it is a sector where men dominate as leaders and decision-makers.

In recognition of the key role men play as stakeholders, influencers, and decision-makers in water institutions and local organizations, CIWA launched the Male Champions for Women's Empowerment (MCWE) to work directly with men to identify ways to apply their influence to overcome gender inequalities and to effect positive change on women's empowerment within the transboundary water context at multiple levels and across multiple domains. By working as a collective platform, the MCWE seeks to facilitate actions Male Champions can take to overcome gender inequalities at the continental, regional, national and local level within the transboundary water sphere in SSA. Concretely, the MCWE will be working with Male Champions through a diversity of actions to advance gender equality within decision-making teams and processes and more broadly within the institutional and program context of transboundary water management. Since its launch in June 2023, CIWA has held monthly virtual meetings, developed an action plan, launched a web site and conducted outreach to recruit new Male Champions.

Objectives of the session

The session is being organized to introduce the objectives, approach and merits of CIWA's Male Champions for Women's Empowerment initiative, to facilitate the identification of challenges and barriers women face in taking leadership and decision-making roles within transboundary water related processes and institutions and to examine possible roles that Male Champions can play to address these identified challenges and barriers.

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