Enhancing the Role of Women in Water User Associations in Azerbaijan

The purpose of this report on enhancing the role of women in water user associations in Azerbaijan is to provide guidance for mainstreaming gender in irrigation management projects in Azerbaijan and in the wider Caucasus and Central Asian regions in order to foster efficient and equitable development in irrigation management. The paper is divided in three chapters. Chapter one sets the background relating the themes of gender to water users associations (WUAs) and irrigation agriculture. It provides both the general sector background as well as an introduction of the overall study and research that was undertaken at the end of Irrigation Distribution System and Management Improvement Project (IDSMIP). Chapter two provides the informative basis for enhancing the role of women in irrigation management. It analyses and discusses the role of men and women in irrigation agriculture in Azerbaijan by synthesizing the findings of the gender survey. Chapter three provides lessons for WUAs in Azerbaijan on how to promote gender equity and for World Bank projects on how to operationalize gender mainstreaming in irrigation agriculture in the country. It also provides guidance in establishing an enabling environment that will foster gender equity in similar irrigation sector programs in the wider Caucasus and Central Asian region.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Merkle, R., Meerbach, D., Akhmedova, A., Bagirzadeh, M., Dideron, S., Javazadeh, L., Rustamova, S.
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012-02
Subjects:	ACCESS TO RESOURCES, ACCESS TO WATER SUPPLY, AGRICULTURAL LAND, AGRICULTURAL LANDS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AGRICULTURAL WATER, AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, AWARENESS RAISING, AWARENESS RAISING ACTIVITIES, BARRIERS TO WOMEN, BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES, BULK WATER, BULK WATER SUPPLIES, CHILD CARE, CLIENT COUNTRIES, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CONSUMPTIVE USES, CROPS, DIET, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE, DRAINAGE SECTOR, DRAINAGE SYSTEM, DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, DRINKING WATER, ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, EQUAL TERMS, FARM WATER MANAGEMENT, FARMER PARTICIPATION, FARMERS, FARMS, FEMALE EMPLOYMENT, FOOD PROCESSING, FOOD PRODUCTION, FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION, FRESHWATER RESOURCES, GENDER, GENDER ACTION, GENDER ASYMMETRIES, GENDER AWARENESS, GENDER DIFFERENCES, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER EQUITY, GENDER EXPECTATIONS, GENDER EXPERT, GENDER FOCAL POINT, GENDER ISSUE, GENDER ISSUES, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, GENDER NEUTRAL, GENDER NOTES, GENDER PERSPECTIVE, GENDER RELATIONS, GENDER ROLES, GENDER SENSITIVITY, GENDER SPECIALIST, GENDER SPECIFIC, GENDER STATISTICS, GENDER STEREOTYPES, GENDER THEME, HAND PUMPS, HOUSEHOLD BUDGET, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD WORK, HUMAN RIGHTS, INCOMES, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS, INTEGRATION, IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATING, IRRIGATION, IRRIGATION CANALS, IRRIGATION DEPARTMENTS, IRRIGATION FACILITIES, IRRIGATION INFRASTRUCTURE, IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT, IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT TRANSFER, IRRIGATION PROJECT, IRRIGATION PROJECTS, IRRIGATION SECTOR, IRRIGATION SERVICE, IRRIGATION SYSTEM, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, IRRIGATION WATER, IRRIGATION WATER USERS, LABOUR FORCE, LABOUR INTENSIVE, LAND REFORM, LARGE SCALE IRRIGATION, LIFT IRRIGATION, LIVELIHOODS, LIVESTOCK, LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION, MARKETING, MARRIAGES, PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRODUCTIVITY, RAINFALL, ROLE OF WOMEN, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL WOMEN, SMALL SCALE IRRIGATION, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SUPPORT SERVICES, UNDP, UNITED NATIONS, WATER DELIVERY, WATER DISTRIBUTION, WATER FEE, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER NEEDS, WATER RESOURCES, WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, WATER RIGHTS, WATER SUPPLY, WATER USE, WATER USER, WATER USER ASSOCIATIONS, WATER USERS, WATER USERS ASSOCIATIONS, WIDOWS, WOMEN IN SOCIETY, WUA,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/02/17428497/enhancing-role-women-water-user-association-s-azerbaijan https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13235
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