Women In The Community
This week, I will discuss the role of women in water management and their participation in decision-making processes. This blog will focus on women's historically marginalized position from participation as well as the barriers facin g them, and the opportunity for women in positions of power and governance. For numerous reasons, women have typically been detached from decision-making processes in relation to water which reinforces the social inequalities in regards to access to water. Similarly, other marginalized groups such as poor communities, ethnic minorities and the elderly are equally subjected to this inequality. Due to this, a participatory framework where all stakeholders and citizens are involved in decision making is now part of the contemporary development approach carried out by many development agencies in order to aid the engagement of women in water-related development processes (Coulter et al ., 2019) . As discussed in previous blog posts, in many sub-Saharan