Ignore water, ignore women

That’s the title of a recent article in the The Punch by Juliett Willetts ( The Institute for Sustainable Futures), published in time for World Water Day on 22nd March and helping to bring the issue once again to the world’s attention.

Also just released is the latest report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation entitled “Progress on sanitation and drinking-water – 2010 Update”, it provides the most recent data for drinking-water and sanitation, along with the implications and trends these new data reveal for reaching the basic sanitation and safe drinking-water MDG target.

For example around the world a staggering 884 million people, one in eight people sharing the world todaycan’t just turn on a tap and access safe water

With the MDG target date of 2015 only five years away, it is time to intensify efforts towards achieving the MDG target and addressing the glaring disparities worldwide.

Research project: Making the invisible visible – Vanuatu case study report

The research project ‘Making the invisible visible’ explores the strategies, steps and activities that are working to promote gender equity in, and through, water and sanitation program in the Pacific. The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) and the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) are currently undertaking research funded by AusAID to investigate gender outcomes in water and sanitation initiatives in the Pacific with partner NGOs.

Copenhagen…where to now?

One week into the two-week summit, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said, ‘the time for delay and blame is over…We must leave this conference…with a strong, robust and substantive outcome’. As marathon negotiations continued, the possibility of a politically binding negotiation slipped further and further from reach. Despite calls for decisive, binding targets from activists and communities the resulting accord has left us asking “where to now?”

Carteret Islanders Hold a Climate Change Action Day

On the eve of the climate change talks in Copenhagen, the small community of the Carteret Islands[i] held a candlelight vigil with the theme Give us a Chance to Survive – Sign Now! In doing so, they joined their brothers and sisters from across the world in a global movement committed to furthering a global solution to the climate crisis.

Fiji women send a clear message to world leaders in Copenhagen

Women’s Action for Change have been lobbying for climate justice in lead up to COP15 and are now sending this clear message to governments from around the world that the women of Fiji want carbon dioxide emissions reduced to at least 350ppm to ensure survival of small island states – for the future of women, families and children.

Research project: Making the invisible visible – documenting successes, enablers and measures of engendering water and sanitation initiatives in the Pacific to inform policy and practice
Fiji Case Study – September
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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the expert body responsible for reviewing implementation of the UN Convention of the same name, has expressed
“its concern about the
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Partner: Live & Learn Environmental Education (LLEE) SI
Country: Solomon Islands
Historically, forest management in the Solomon Islands has been widely contested and controversial. For decades sustainable forest management has been absent
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