Saturday, March 10, 2007

Water is women's issue

Part 2 of the UN gender bureaucrats' blind application of gender mainstreaming concept...

Providing safe water and instituting effective water management system in poor community sounds like an a-political, fairly non-controversial issue. After all, no one can survive without water, for drinking, eating and myriad of other purposes. It is like air. No one can live without it for a long time. But once the omnipresent UN gender bureaucrats got their hands in it, as they do in every single issues that entrusted to the United Nations by government, civil societies, etc., it took less than nanoseconds for them to turn the issue of water resource management into yet another tool to advance their radical social-engineering scheme...

The United Nations Development Programme, in collaboration with the Gender and Water Alliance, (what?) has developed a "Gender and Water Resource Management Guide" in which it discusses such feminist gobblydooks as;

"The gender-differentiated systems for access to resources, labor, water uses, water rights, and the distribution of benefits and production, sex-disaggregated data and the documentation of unpaid labor,"
"Gender dimensions of institutions at all levels in society (within the household, community-based organisations, water users associations, local governments, national civil services, etc.)."

"Gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation indicators"

"targeted actions to increase women's contribution to decision-making; opening up new opportunities for women/men in non-traditional skill areas"

And, gender dimension on flood control, and women's influence in decision making on the flood-control. (yes, of course only women are affected by flood)

Apparently every water-related issues are re-framed with singular focus on gender power relation, with musing over the patriarchal society that brought such power relation, and ends in recommending action-oriented plans to reverse such gender power relation. Looks like with gender-bureaucrats multiplying like rats in the UN headquarters and applying Marxist-gender feminists theories to every social issues, prospect for poor African man getting access to safe water has gone down, although the prospect for increase in the number of women in "decision-making level" on water management and ultimately subverting the gender power relation has risen. And that's A-OK because that's all gender feminists care about.

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