Good Practice Paper in Water: Closing the Gender Gap: Punjab Water Supply and Sanitation Project
Asian Development Bank | January 2007
Abstract
This good practice paper looks at how one ADB water supply project developed female beneficiaries into change agents. The paper summarizes the planning, design, and implementation of gender-specific components that made the water supply project the success that it is.
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Asian Development Bank. 2007. Good Practice Paper in Water: Closing the Gender Gap: Punjab Water Supply and Sanitation Project. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1445. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Gender
Gender Equality
Water
Water Supply
Gender Bias
Gender Discrimination
Access To Water
Drinking Water And Sanitation
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