Presentation at Agua2009, November 2009 in Cali, Colombia.

1. Water Integrity, Gender Equity
and Climate Change
CALI, 9 November 2009
Jenni Laxén

2. CORRUPTION IN THE WATER SECTOR
• Water is linked with development
• Many opportunities for corruption
• Puts lives and livelihoods of billions at risk
• Slows development and poverty reduction
efforts
• Corruption exists everywhere
• Disproportionally affects the poor
• Intensifies regional water scarcity

3. COSTS OF CORRUPTION
• Waste of financial resources
• Distorts allocation
• Failure to lead by example
• Loss of natural resources

4. WATER INTEGRITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• Billions of $ of new investments, high
risk for corruption
• Corruption may render effect of
climate change even bigger
• Corruption becomes means of
gaining access to an ever scarcer
resource

5. WATER INTEGRITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (II)
Impacts of corruption manifested through:
• Drinking water and sanitation systems
• Irrigation
• Hydropower
• Integrated Water Resource Management

6. WATER INTEGRITY AND GENDER EQUITY
1) Both women and men should be
represented in the climate change
discussions, as
2) Climate change affects women and
men differently, and
3) Women and men affect the
environment, thus also climate
change, differently

7. WATER INTEGRITY AND GENDER EQUITY (II)
• Climate change hits poor women the
hardest
• 98% of natural disasters hit third
world countries
• Climate change is not a gender
neutral phenomenon

8. WHAT CAN BE DONE?
• Anti-corruption platforms integrated
into policy agendas
• Corruption and environment policy
agendas streamlined
• Strengthening commitment and
monitoring

9. WATER INTEGRITY NETWORK- WIN
• Funded in 2006; coalitions and
partnerships are vital
• Brings together all actors in the
water sector as well as the leading
anti-corruption movement
• Advocating for Water Integrity on a
global level
• Country-based Water Integrity
activities (WI scans and
programmes)

10. WHO DOESN‘T HAVE A STAKE IN WATER?