Participatory Gender Analytical Framework Exercise for UP Members

WPP: SDSD project has been working in the Rajshahi and Chapai Nawabganj districts of northern part of Bangladesh since April 2004. This project gives emphasis the WatSan is entry point to considering the improvement of local governance and support for self-reliance. SDC has interest to assistance its’ partners and Union Parishad (UP) so that they can ensure good governance to their all activities.

UP has responsibility to ensure and manage safe water and sanitation by lunching good governance in it premises. To perform this duty properly, it is necessary to show positive attitude and to be skill up of UP bodies who are responsible to manage the UP. It is important to involve the people in accordance with positive attitudinal change and acquiring skill. SDSD project gives emphasis in these issues. Gender role in WatSan activities of UP members training is contemporary and play effective role to implement the WatSan activities properly of UP.

Gender is one of the crosscutting themes of SDSD project. So there are very clear gender related outputs and objectively verifiable indicators been mentioned in the log frame of the project. In order to achieve these outputs gender mainstreaming at the root organizations is needed, because they are the key to carry over the activities at the root level. So, there is a need to develop a gender analytical frame work by using which tool root level organizations will be able to incorporate gender in their yearly activity plan and through these SDSD will be able to ensure women participation in WatSan related activities at CBO/UP level as this is expected at out put level. Keeping in mind this project thinks that, as part of a series training this manual is prepared for them so that they will be gender sensitive in WatSan activities implementation by using the participatory Gender Analytical Framework (GAF). Therefore will ensure qualitative WatSan services in his/her jurisdiction.

As part of a series of training sessions to increase capacity and management skill of UP, project prepare a manual on UP’s women members roles and responsibilities related to safe water, sanitation and heath activities. The draft of the manual was initially share with staffs and used it successfully in the training courses. After completion of the courses relevant lesson learns were incorporated in the manual by making necessary editing. Then final version of the manual was accepted for use in the areas under the project. For justifying effective use of this manual has been made final version by gender consultant and with the support of SDSD/PNGO staffs by sufficient field tests, workshops and orientation.

DASCOH think that, the success of this publication depends on to create a dialogue within UP in all activities especially WatSan which will help them to develop a gender sensitive action plan related to WatSan issues.

Credits go to all who have helped in designing and publishing this manual.