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Gendered Participation in Community-Level Water Governance in Syrian Refugee Host Communities in Jordan Gendered participation in community-level water governance in Syrian refugee host communities in Jordan Laura Mapstone Scott Photo by Author This research is submitted as part of an MSc degree from the Department of Geography at King’s College London, Sept 2015 For more information contact: [email protected] Abstract This thesis analyses gendered household and community relations and management systems over water in the Russeifa District of the Zarqa Governorate in Jordan to predict how the creation of new participatory spaces for community-level water governance would be received and utilized. Gendered power structures between water users, service providers and the government are analysed and mapped based off receptivity to community participation. The paper argues that women’s participation in water committees would be restricted by social norms and socioeconomic status and that in order to foster more substantive participation, programs should focus on developing institutional support, women’s solidarity and a spatial context for participation in the community. Keywords: Water Governance, Participatory Spaces, Community Participation, Water Committee’s, Gender Analysis, Syrian refugees, Zarqa Governorate, Jordan ii Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................ ii Table of Contents ................................................................................................. iii List of Tables ........................................................................................................ iv List of Figures ....................................................................................................... iv List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................ iv Acknowledgements ............................................................................................... v Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1 Literature Review .................................................................................................. 1 The Hegemony of Participation in Water Governance............................................................................ 1 Gender, Marginalisation and Power Relations in Participatory Spaces ....................................... 2 Inclusive Spaces for Participation in Water Governance ................................................................... 3 Conceptual Framework ...................................................................................................................................... 4 The Jordan Context: Water Governance and Participatory Spaces .................................................... 6 Methodological Approaches .................................................................................. 8 Research Locations .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Data Collection and Sampling ....................................................................................................................... 10 Research Limitations ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Research Findings ............................................................................................... 11 Gendered Roles and Social Norms in Household and Community Water Management ...... 11 Gendered Relations with Water Service Providers ............................................................................ 12 Gendered Spaces for Community Participation .................................................................................. 15 Donor-Driven Community-Level Water Governance ............................................................................ 16 Community Receptivity to Participatory Spaces for Water Governance .................................... 16 Institutional Support for Participation ................................................................................................... 18 Analysis: Constraining and Motivating Factors for Participation ........................... 21 Conclusions ......................................................................................................... 23 Appendix I: Ethics Screening ................................................................................ 25 Appendix II: Risk Assessment Form...................................................................... 28 Appendix III: Information Sheet in English ........................................................... 30 Appendix IV: Fieldwork Photos ............................................................................ 31 List of References ................................................................................................ 32 iii List of Tables Table 1. Typology of Participation (Agarwal, 2001) ........................................................... 4 List of Figures Figure 1. Map of Water Sector Institutions ........................................................................ 7 Figure 2. Framework for evaluating women’s participation in urban water projects ....... 5 Figure 3. Map of Jordan with population density ............................................................... 9 Figure 4. Map of Russeifa in the context of Jordan by Governorate .................................. 9 Figure 5. Map of stakeholder support for Women’s Participation in Community Water Management .................................................................................................. 18 List of Abbreviations CBO - Community-Based Organization FGD - Focus Group Discussion GoJ – Government of Jordan GWA - Gender Water Ambassador IWRM - Integrated Water Resource Management JVA - Jordan Valley Authority MWI – Ministry of Water and Irrigation NGO - Non-governmental Organization NRW - Non-Revenue Water PD – Participatory Development PMU - Project Management Unit WAJ – Water Authority of Jordan WASH - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene WUA – Water User Association iv Acknowledgements I am very grateful for the support of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) as this research would not have been made possible without the Geographical Fieldwork Grant. I would like to thank the Oxfam GB team for their in-country support and Ehabiddean Jayussi (IRD), Bashar Shunnaq (Arabteq) and Rawan Sabbah (Working Women’s Association) for assistance in data collection, translation and community introductions. Thank you to the many individuals and organizations in Russeifa that were so welcoming and generous in sharing their knowledge and passion for improving community water management. I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to my advisor, Professor Tony Allan, for his advice and guidance throughout this process, to the soon to be Dr. Amiera Sawas for sharing all her knowledge of water and gender with me over the past year, and to Dr. Daanish Mustafa from whom I learnt how best to conduct water fieldwork in the Jordanian context. Lastly, thank you to my family for their tremendous support and motivational speeches and to mansaf and kunafa for being so delicious after a long day of fieldwork. v Introduction Water governance refers to the political, economic and administrative processes that shape the ways in which water is used, allocated and managed (WFG, 2015). This research focuses on water governance in Syrian Refugee Host Communities, Jordanian cities typically in the North of the country that house a high number of refugees, where 66% of Jordanians and 55% of Syrians are dissatisfied with water management services (REACH, 2014). International donors are encouraging Jordan to take a decentralised, participatory approach to water governance to increase the efficiency and accountability of water service providers to communities (GIZ, 2015). There are currently few forums for community-level participation in urban water resource management and instead policy and governance structures are determined at a national and corporate level (Masharqa, 2012). Oxfam is one of several civil society organisations attempting to build the capacity of communities to participate in water governance and it will soon pilot water committees and gender water ambassador programs in the Russeifa District of the Zarqa Governorate. This thesis analyses gendered household and community relations and management practices over water to predict how the creation of new participatory spaces by international donors would be received and utilized by communities. The research seeks to understand whether creating new participatory spaces would be effective in empowering community voices to influence water governance and to seek accountability from water service providers. I argue that motivating factors to Jordanian and particularly Syrian women’s participation in community-level water governance in Russeifa would be outweighed by constraining factors leading to shallow spaces for ‘nominal’ or ‘consultative’ participation. Following a conceptual framework developed by Das (2014), I argue that women’s participation is restricted by social norms and socioeconomic status and that in order to foster more substantive participation programs should focus on developing institutional support, women’s solidarity and a spatial context for participation.
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