Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management Training Programme, Trinidad, Caribbean WaterNet.

The course is organised by GWP Caribbean; Caribbean WaterNet and executed by the Women, Gender and Water Network at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of the West Indies.
The main objectives of the training programme are to enable participants to:

• Define the concepts of gender, gender analysis and gender mainstreaming as applied to public policy and water resource management.

• Use the ‘gender lens' to share with each other on a country basis, their experiences in access to and use of water in the household, as well as business and industry.

• Link the gendered approach to water uses in the household, and in business and industry to the key components of the Millennium Development Goals, for example, to poverty alleviation, child mortality, and the environment.

• In light of 3) above, diagnose the extent to which gender is currently incorporated into policies, programmes and projects in the Caribbean and the implications to date.

• Use the methods and techniques of gender mainstreaming to take into account the needs and interests as well as the active involvement of men and women in the development of policies, programmes and projects related to water resource management.

• Use the logical framework analysis approach to develop gender-based Action Plans for Integrated Water Resources Management within a Caribbean context and in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

• Make recommendations for identifying Gender Focal Points and a system of monitoring and evaluation for implementing the Action Plans.