Transboundary water management (TWM) regards how internationally shared waters are managed. Recently, TWM processes have been researched from the perspective of gender inclusivity. In line with this trend, this thesis is investigating to what extent the Transboundary Policy Dialogue for Improved Water Governance in Brahmaputra River (the Brahmaputra Dialogue) about the Brahmaputra River is gender sensitive. The Brahmaputra River is shared by China, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The management of the river is severely conflicted both intra- and interstate wise. Therefore, the Brahmaputra Dialogue, facilitated by the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Study (SaciWATERs), aims at creating understanding between the different stakeholders. To measure the gender sensitivity, the Gender Sensitivity Framework is created. The framework is a toolkit that, through a set of indicators, measure gender inclusivity from both a structural and a substantive perspective. Using a descriptive text analysis method of the reports from the third and current phase of the Brahmaputra Dialogue, the investigation reveals that the Brahmaputra Dialogue is only 45% gender sensitive. While the work ways of the Brahmaputra Dialogue generally are gender inclusive, the Brahmaputra Dialogue content wise lacks some key aspects of gender awareness. One such aspect is that the concept of “gender” is broader than women’s vulnerabilities to masculine decision-making.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-345328 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Lexén, Tove |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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