Empowerment and water among pastoralist women in Northern Kenya
This study explores questions around women, water and gendered power relations in Maasai and Samburu counties
Abstract
This study explores questions around women, water and gendered power relations in Maasai and Samburu counties of Northern Kenya. It looks at both water-secure and water-insecure communities. The study is based on the premise that one way that women in patriarchal pastoralist communities are disempowered in relation to men in through the gendered dynamics of domestic and livestock water security. It anticipated that the poor performance of local water security initiatives would be shown to be a factor in women鈥檚 relative disempowerment.
This is an output from the REACH 鈥業mproving Water Security for the Poor鈥� programme
Citation
Centre for Humanitarian Change (2018) Empowerment and water among pastoralist women in Northern Kenya. Nairobi: Centre for Humanitarian Change