Tapping our Potential: Women’s Water Leadership in the Nile Basin
Publisher: Stockholm International Water Institute
Date: 2019
Topics: Conflict Prevention, Cooperation, Extractive Resources, Gender, Governance
Cooperation over the shared water resources of the Nile Basin is essential to water security and development in the region. To mitigate and manage potential and actual drivers of water-related conflict in the region, improved and more inclusive resource decision-making is critical. Engaging a diverse cross-section of stakeholders in decisions around shared waters broadens the set of environmental and social impacts that are considered and the knowledge and skills employed to address them, thus increasing the likelihood of developing sustainable and equitable solutions.
In the Nile Basin, SIWI and partners initiated a growing network of women water professionals active in transboundary water management under the ‘Women and Water Diplomacy in the Nile (WIN)’ platform to enhance the collective capacity of women throughout the basin and to support the engagement of these women water leaders in decision-making and peace building processes in the Basin.