Paula Kantor - AgWISE: A Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Perspective [21:32-26:35]

There is a I wise there is a H wise so I wise means the individual level household water and security experience and H wise is household level water and security experience skills and they have 12 items which you can see in the screen and then there is also a summary like I wise and H wise which has only four items but the original one that one with 12 indicators. It actually started in Kenya and then it has been piloted in 23 low and middle income countries so there has that so it has a lot of collaborators and it also very scalable relevant tools that has been used very widely and verified it in different place and that's why we actually wanted interested to use the wise skills in agriculture systems. So so there are there are like four key outputs that we developed in the last few years and we also intend to publish a more output in coming as and all are available in online you can always go and check this output you can read. Now before going to the details of my research findings I just wanted to give you a summary of what I'm going to present today. So first our findings actually thank was finding actually challenge dominant narratives and domestic and productive water use and the common assumption is that women are primarily responsible for domestic water while men come to the protein water. However, our results shows that you know that this binary does not really hold in practice both men and women actually engage with domestic and productive water as their roles responsibilities and a constant difference. And second we wanted to look at this water insecurity is actually seen by intersection inequalities it's not felt everyone by the same same extent. So access control and use of water are not a simply determined by the availability but by the local geography power relations associated economic relationship social high case. And the privilege and land ownership also in some extent the institutional advertisement influence who can access and control water in the coastal region in many cases formal and informal rules including releasing a missing can help bodies. And local government practice in the ground are also interpreted or negotiated in ways that enable unequal water appropriation. And finally, as Dr. Diba mentioned a bit earlier that before the physical and material challenges water state also water state also generates a significant psychosocial impact such as anxiety or sleep disorders experts of has met which is largely not explicit by the researcher. So this effect of particularly pronouns for women's and and what happened in the coastal region is that although we may face the extended burden of psychosocial impact but due to the social norms often condition women's to be made silent and or cope with the cope with the stress. So now our our tools and vice modules educate audience experience modules. So as Dr. Diba mentioned then we adapted the wise skills methodology to examine a and food system. So for this we actually collaborated to Professor Sam from Motocene University with the barrier of wise skills and contextualize it for the effort system which now we call it advice module and. We define agricultural density experience as a lack of access to and benefits from adequate quality and reliable water for agriculture that produce a negative consequences for human lives. The initial development we had a lot of stakeholder in this man submitting with the with the key ministries that the people that work in the government at the local level that we had several field business pilot testing and then finally came up with the 12 items which you can see in the screen from Ori to interrupt Sean chain decision food so on and have to feature you. So each item is phrase as when we ask question and the ground is item is phrases in the past 12 months how often have you are someone else in your household already about problems with agriculture water like too much water or totally water not clean or conflict about water for your food productions. So all can be due to the climate stress like cyclone or drought flood or or can it grabbing.