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    Gender analyses of community water resources management in Ga East municipal assembly
    (University of Ghana, 2015-04-17) Owusu, G.
    Much research has been done on the involvement of communities in water resources management, but little can be said about community water management through gender lenses. The study seeks to analyze the relationship between gender and portable water resources management in the Ga East District Assembly, Ghana. The Gender Ana lysis Matrix (GAM) was employed to determine the role of women in water management as well as the different impact that water development projects and intervention have on women and men. A semi-structured interview guide was employed to interview key water management informants such as board members, assemblymen/ women, and workers of Municipal Assembly. the community representatives had mostly males to be their chairman and secretary, while the females were organizers and hygiene educators. In water economics, the board raises two main sources of income for the management of the scheme: from stand pipes vendors and from water tariffs from households. About90% of the stand pipes are managed by women. On socio-cultural factors, the women on board had meetings with the community women to clean all the standpipes, reservoirs, and other parts of the towns every month. In conclusion, community water resources management in the study area is not gender blind but there should be involvement of middle income women residents and also sensitization of the communities to be gender sensitive when electing board members for water management.