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Gender and Water in Mongolia

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Pages 16-31 | Received 01 Apr 2008, Accepted 01 Mar 2009, Published online: 04 Dec 2009
 

Abstract

Global institutions, academics, and practitioners have long acknowledged the need to consider gender in creating sustainable water management plans. However, for most countries a dearth of context-specific information on gender and water relations hinders gender-sensitive plan development. Mongolia is particularly poorly represented in the gender and water literature. This article presents fieldwork revealing distinctive gendered practices around water use, decision making, and management including an unusually high degree of men's participation in water collection. This research adds new context-specific data to the understanding of actual gender and water relations and underscores the need for further investigation into the Mongolian context.

Durante mucho tiempo, las instituciones globales, académicos y prácticos han reconocido la necesidad de considerar el género cuando se trate de la formulación de planes de manejo sostenible del agua. Sin embargo, en la mayoría de los países la escasez de información contextual específica sobre género y las relaciones con temas del agua obstaculiza el desarrollo de planes sensibles a la consideración de género. En particular, el caso de Mongolia está pobremente representado en la literatura que relacione género y agua. Este artículo presenta los resultados del trabajo de campo, que revelan prácticas en las que concretamente interviene el género sobre uso, toma de decisiones y manejo del agua, que incluyen un grado inusualmente alto de participación de los hombres en la captación del recurso hídrico. Esta investigación agrega nuevos datos de contexto específico para la cabal comprensión de relaciones entre género y agua, y pone al descubierto la necesidad de más investigación dentro del contexto mongol.

Acknowledgments

Her research interests include gender and the environment, feminist geography, critical development studies, and ethical consumption.

Her research interests include international environmental policy, feminist geography, global political economy, and militarism and the environment.

Notes

aHouseholds that collect water do not receive water piped into their homes from the central delivery system.

an = 3.

bn = 4.

cn = 5.

dn = 1.

*This article would not have been possible without the knowledge and guidance of Jargal Jamsranjavin, Soninkhishig Nergui, Batbayar G. Oyunmunkh, Dawn Beazley, Gail Fraser, Korice Moir, and Paul Marmer.

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