Water and Gender in Africa

I particularly want to dedicate this post to explore gender sanitation strategies in informal settlements after the seminar on urban sanitation as it provided me with insights into the role of market-based sanitation strategies initiated in the challenges faced by informal settlements ie. Temporality of landscape linked with political unwillingness, high population densities and land rights. This links back to my findings in the 2 nd post that access to water affects women disproportionately in informal settlements. I will evaluate existing sanitation strategies in empowering women, particularly the Peepoo bags, Sanergy toilets and Iko toilet in the Nairobi slums in Kenya. To contextualize the issues with gender and water sanitation in informal settlements, I will begin with an overview of the macro to micro development of sanitary systems in East Africa and the Kibera slum of Narobi respectively. Since the post-colonial era, water supply servicing and waste collec