Activating the role of women in water projects

Peer review under responsibility of National Water Research Center.

Figures & data

Fig. 1 Assiut Barrage.

Table 1 The trends of respondents to do their economic and social role.

Content	Impact	Repetitions	Percentage
Subliminal
Importance of economic and social role	Important	70	58.3
	To some extent	35	29.2
	Unimportant	15	12.5
Propensity
Degree of readiness to perform economic and social role	Ready	60	50
	To some extent	35	29.2
	Not ready	25	20.8

Source: Data collected and calculated from the questionnaire.

Table 2 Level of women's membership of community-based organizations in research area.

Serial no.	Means of economic and social role performance of women	Repetitions	Percentage of membership level	Percentage
1	Community development association	60	48	1
2	Women's association	18	15	5
3	Voluntary association	18	15	6
4	Charity committee	30	25	4
5	Unions	48	40	2
6	Political party	36	30	3
The average percent of relative weight (%)		29.2

Source: Data collected and calculated from the questionnaire.

Fig. 2 the ratio of ingredients effect of readiness.

Table 3 Distribution of respondents according to their vision about the adequacy of the services provided in research area.

Serial no.	Type of services	Repetitions	The adequacy of the services
1	Educational services	90	75
2	Health services	72	60
3	Social services	54	45
4	Economic services	48	40
5	Political services	66	55
6	Environmental services	60	50
7	Refueling services	72	60
8	Family planning services	84	70
9	Reproductive health services	78	65
10	Literacy services	54	45
11	Training services	36	30

Source: Data collected and calculated from the questionnaire.

Table 4 Distribution of respondents according to obstacles facing the performance of services in the study area and proposals to increase their efficiency.

Serial no.	Obstacles and proposals	Repetitions	Total sample (%)	Order
Obstacles of the performance of the economic and social role of women
1	Decrease of awareness about the importance of projects among women	80	66.7	3
2	Lack of familiarity with the related water laws	78	65	4
3	Difficulty of transportation	55	45.8	6
4	Lack of financial resources	85	70.8	2
5	Negative manner of some project managers	40	33.3	7
6	Reducing the ability of women to participate and vary	70	58.3	5
7	Lack of cooperation between the executive entities in assigning roles for women projects	100	83.3	1
Proposals for activation of economic and social role of women
1	Conducting awareness sessions for women about the importance of water projects	101	58.3	2
2	Increasing the positive role of women's participation	65	54.2	3
3	Identifying problems more accurately and focus	45	37.5	4
4	Deep examination of the role of women in water projects	76	63.3	1
5	Provide support to encourage women participation by stockholder's officials	40	33.3	5

Source: Data collected and calculated from the questionnaire.

Table 5 The correlations of the analyzes tests.

	performance	Services	Obstacles	Proposals
Degree of readiness
Pearson correlation	0.251^**	0.372^**	0.238^**	0.145
Sig. (2-tailed)	.006	.000	.009	.114
N	120	120	120	120

^* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).