Gender and Water in Mongolia

摘要

Global institutions, academics, and practitioners have long acknowledged the need to consider gender increating sustainable water management plans. However, for most countries a dearth of context-specificinformation on gender and water relations hinders gender-sensitive plan development. Mongolia isparticularly poorly represented in the gender and water literature. This article presents fieldwork revealingdistinctive gendered practices around water use, decision making, and management including an unusuallyhigh degree of men's participation in water collection. This research adds new context-specific data to theunderstanding of actual gender and water relations and underscores the need for further investigation intothe Mongolian context.