Water is life : women's human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa / edited by Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Barbara van Koppen.
2015
KQC145.W64 W38 2015 (Mapit)
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Water is life : women's human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa / edited by Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Barbara van Koppen.
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Harare, [Zimbabwe] : Weaver Press, 2015.
Description
xviii, 620 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series
North-South legal perspectives series ; no. 6.
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Part I. Introduction. 1. The human right to water and sanitation in a legal pluralist landscape : perspectives of southern and eastern African women / Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Barbara van Koppen
2. Turning the tide : engendering the human right to water and sanitation / Anne Hellum, Ingunn Ikdahl and Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Part II. Kenya. 3. Human rights, gender and water in Kenya : law, prospects and challenges / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Francis Kariuki
4. Not so rosy : farm workers' right to water in the Lake Naivasha Basin / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Edna Odhiambo
5. Watered down : gender and the human right to water and reasonable sanitation in Mathare, Nairobi / Celestine Nyamu Musembi
6. Gender dimensions of customary water resource governance : Marakwet case study / Elizabeth Gachenga
Part III. Malawi. 7. The political economy of the human right to water and women in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa
8. Women's right to water and participation in practice : insights from urban local water governance systems / Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa
9. Primary actors on the back seat : gender, human rights and rural water governance in Malawi : lessons from Mpemba and Chileka / Michael Chasukwa, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza and Timothy Chirwa
Part IV. Zimbabwe. 10. Governance, gender equality and the right to water and sanitation in Zimbabwe : contested norms and institutions in an unstable economic and political terrain / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Ellen Sithole and Elizabeth Rutsate
11. Zimbabwe's urban water crisis and its implications for different women : emerging norms and practices in Harare's high density suburbs / Anne Hellum, Ellen Sithole, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate
12. Securing rural women's land and water rights : lessons from Domboshawa communal land / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate
13. A hidden presence : women farm workers right to water and sanitation in the aftermath of the fast track land reform / Elizabeth Rutsate, Bill Derman and Anne Hellum
Part V. South Africa. 14. Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water : lessons from South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Bill Derman, Barbara Schreiner, Ebenezer Durojaye, and Ngcime Mweso
15. Gender-equality in statutory water law : the case of priority general authorizations in South Africa / Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner
16. Gender, rights, and the politics of productivity : the case of the Flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Tapela, and Everisto Mapedza
Appendix 1. International legal documents
Appendix 2. National legislation and cases.
2. Turning the tide : engendering the human right to water and sanitation / Anne Hellum, Ingunn Ikdahl and Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Part II. Kenya. 3. Human rights, gender and water in Kenya : law, prospects and challenges / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Francis Kariuki
4. Not so rosy : farm workers' right to water in the Lake Naivasha Basin / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Edna Odhiambo
5. Watered down : gender and the human right to water and reasonable sanitation in Mathare, Nairobi / Celestine Nyamu Musembi
6. Gender dimensions of customary water resource governance : Marakwet case study / Elizabeth Gachenga
Part III. Malawi. 7. The political economy of the human right to water and women in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa
8. Women's right to water and participation in practice : insights from urban local water governance systems / Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa
9. Primary actors on the back seat : gender, human rights and rural water governance in Malawi : lessons from Mpemba and Chileka / Michael Chasukwa, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza and Timothy Chirwa
Part IV. Zimbabwe. 10. Governance, gender equality and the right to water and sanitation in Zimbabwe : contested norms and institutions in an unstable economic and political terrain / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Ellen Sithole and Elizabeth Rutsate
11. Zimbabwe's urban water crisis and its implications for different women : emerging norms and practices in Harare's high density suburbs / Anne Hellum, Ellen Sithole, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate
12. Securing rural women's land and water rights : lessons from Domboshawa communal land / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate
13. A hidden presence : women farm workers right to water and sanitation in the aftermath of the fast track land reform / Elizabeth Rutsate, Bill Derman and Anne Hellum
Part V. South Africa. 14. Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water : lessons from South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Bill Derman, Barbara Schreiner, Ebenezer Durojaye, and Ngcime Mweso
15. Gender-equality in statutory water law : the case of priority general authorizations in South Africa / Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner
16. Gender, rights, and the politics of productivity : the case of the Flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Tapela, and Everisto Mapedza
Appendix 1. International legal documents
Appendix 2. National legislation and cases.
Note
"In association with: the Southern & Eastern African Regional Centre For Women's Law (SEARCWL) at the University of Zimbabwe and the Institute of Women's Law, Child Law and Discrimination Law, Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-620).
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STA
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KQC145.W64 W38 2015
Language
English
ISBN
1779222637 paperback
9781779222633 paperback
9781779222794 ePub
1779222793 ePub
9781779222633 paperback
9781779222794 ePub
1779222793 ePub
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