Mainstreaming GESI for transboundary water resource management
Enhancing capacities for mainstreaming gender, equality, and social inclusion (GESI) for sustainable transboundary water resource management
Course Start Date Sep 1, 2022
Course End Date Dec 31, 2022
About This Course
This course aims to teach participants to identify and understand key concepts of Gender, Equality, and Social Inclusion (GESI), and to identify approaches for mainstreaming GESI into their institutions, programs, or projects. Targeting professionals working in transboundary natural resource governance, with an emphasis on water resource management, this course will help participants articulate how to contribute to GESI mainstreaming within water resource management activities and projects, to achieve a common goal of effective, sustainable, and inclusive water resource management that ‘leaves no-one behind’.
This online learning course on “Enhancing capacities for mainstreaming GESI for sustainable transboundary water resource management” is led and facilitated by researchers and consultants from the USAID Resilient Waters Program, the Global Water Partnership, the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University, the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF), the Southern African Development Community Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI), and the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM).
Learning Objectives
- To introduce participants to the importance and benefits of mainstreaming GESI in transboundary water resource management programs, projects, and institutions.
- To expose participants to key concepts and frameworks related to gender equality and social inclusion.
- To introduce participants to key approaches for integrating and mainstreaming GESI in water resource management programs, projects, and institutions.
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