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| Title: | The empowerment of women: water and sanitation initiatives in rural Egypt |
| Authors: | El Katsha, Samiha Watts, Susan |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Pages: | 99 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cairo papers in social science |
| City of publisher: | Cairo |
| Publisher: | The American University in Cairo Press |
| ISBN: | 9774243110 |
| Geographic term: | Egypt |
| Subjects: | rural women health rural areas water supply |
| Abstract: | This book is based on material gathered during an action/research project undertaken in two villages in Menoufia Governorate in the Nile Delta, Egypt, between March 1986 and March 1990. The project explored ways of improving water and sanitation conditions in these villages. Its main objectives were to test various participatory approaches towards improving health and sanitation and to test various models of environmental health education. The project sought to empower local people and especially women, by encouraging their participation in the decisionmaking process, and their leadership in health education and community activism. The project also identified the government bodies responsible for health and sanitation. An overview of water and sanitation interventions in general in the context of the UN International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, 1981-1990, is followed by an examination of the problem in Egypt and the role of rural women in health and sanitation, and an outline of the research orientation and methodology. The two villages are described, and the processes involved in water and sanitation interventions are discussed, as is the interaction between the research team, villagers and local formal and informal leaders. Next the hygiene education programme established in the two villages is examined. The final chapter draws some general conclusions. |