Linking Water Supply and Poverty Alleviation

Joep Verhagen, A.J. James, Christine van Wijk, Reema Nanavatty, Mita Parikh, Mihir Bhatt (2004)

In general, women still have limited opportunities to influence the design and operation of domestic water supply projects for their productive uses of water and time. This document describes a pilot research carried out in Gujarat, India. Together with the women and men concerned, the following issues were assessed: the relevance of women's productive uses of water, the time gains for the family, the impact of such uses on gender relations, and the implications for policies, project design and operations management.

The study was carried out from June 1999 to April 2001 by the Foundation for Public Interest (FPI), the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. The Swedish International Development Authority (Sida) financed the research.

You can download the paper at www.irc.nl/page/8760