Gitta Shrestha

A pioneering pilot training program in India and Nepal is challenging tradition and helping communities to rethink gender relations in agriculture. Could its approach help to address gender inequalities more broadly?

In Nepal, the legal quota for women’s participation in official community water management groups marks an important step towards gender equality. For meaningful change however, there also needs to be structural transformation. 

Covid has severely affected low income women farmers in Nepal more than other vulnerable groups. Here is why supporting them should be a top priority. 

In order to achieve gender equity in the water development sector, we need to understand the role of men and the impacts of masculinity in society.