{"id":1832,"date":"2017-10-17T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:59:08","slug":"deccma-participates-in-webinar-on-gender-roles-in-water-scarcity-induced-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/10\/17\/deccma-participates-in-webinar-on-gender-roles-in-water-scarcity-induced-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"DECCMA participates in webinar on gender roles in water scarcity-induced migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Katharine Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" title=\"WWAP,\u00a0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/typo3temp\/pics\/e7508f193a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/typo3temp\/pics\/4edf6ad5fc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"158\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creating evidence to contribute to policy support for gender-sensitive adaptation in deltas requires significant sex-disaggregated data and investigation of gender implications of migration. DECCMA has, so far, surveyed 6000 households across four deltas in migrant-sending areas, and is in the process of surveying a further 6000 households in migrant-receiving areas.<\/p>\n<p>Where possible in the survey, the household head and an adult of the other sex have been separately surveyed, giving rise to a significant data set. This illuminates gender differences in the causes, patterns and consequences of migration, and was highlighted by DECCMA during a webinar on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/natural-sciences\/environment\/water\/wwap\/water-and-gender\/iw-webinar-series-on-gender-and-water\/timeline-and-themes\/\">Gender roles in water scarcity-induced migration<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The webinar took place as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegef.org\">GEF<\/a> International Waters: LEARN project (gender sub-component), undertaken by UNESCO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/natural-sciences\/environment\/water\/wwap\/\">World Water Assessment Programme<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\">World Wildlife Fund<\/a> (WWF). The aim of this project is to raise awareness of the importance of gender mainstreaming and how to do it in international waters project. They recently published a report on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0025\/002589\/258968E.pdf\">Migration and its interdependencies with water scarcity, gender and youth<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Katharine Vincent Creating evidence to contribute to policy support for gender-sensitive adaptation in deltas requires significant sex-disaggregated data and investigation of gender implications of migration. DECCMA has, so far, surveyed 6000 households across four deltas in migrant-sending areas, and is in the process of surveying a further 6000 households in migrant-receiving areas. Where possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-training"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}