4 / Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Women’s Economic Empowerment WaterAid Rwanda 1.5 Links between Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and Women’s Economic Empowerment Women’s economic empowerment is access to and control over critical economic a cornerstone of human rights, social resources and opportunities, and the elimination of justice, poverty reduction, and sustainable structural gender inequali. [...] Fetching and managing water transactional sex by water vendors, increase the risk of verbal harassment, sexual and intimate partner violence due to assault, and rape.24 They are also blamed at home insufficient water in the household.32 when bringing back inadequate amounts of water and in case of water-related financial stress.25 Unreliability of water can result in walking farther to find or fet. [...] Women and girls lose time both walking to water sources and queuing for water at shared facilities.43 Climate change – resulting in, for Impacts on Women’s Economic Empowerment example, environmental degradation – is Time poverty constrains women’s increasing the distance and time that women entrepreneurship and limits the growth and girls must travel to collect water.44 and success of their busin. [...] The study noted that time saved for women and girls can be used for By working to change values, mindsets, and economic and productive purposes, increasing behaviours on shared responsibility within productivity and “time returns”, and for studying the household, water and sanitation actors can or participating in political and social activities contribute to the rise of new gender norms. [...] Without strategic WEE- sensitive investments in WASH, the consequences As primary WASH users, women and girls in terms of time, health, violence, and lost have deep and experiential knowledge of educational and employment opportunities will how services can be improved, managed, and continue to stand in the way of progress towards made more sustainable for everyone.
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