Gender mainstreaming as a guiding principle of Spanish Cooperation
All actions promoted by the FCAS incorporate a cross-cutting gender approach as a guiding principle of Spanish Cooperation, including actions related to political participation, decision-making and economic empowerment, among others. In the case of water and sanitation, women’s participation is extremely important, both as their own right and to ensure that services are sustainable. This implies that programmes carry out gender diagnoses and set up specific empowerment and capacity building activities.
Among the activities carried out throughout 2024, it is worth highlighting the work of collecting stories and experiences of women who are leading change in their communities through water and sanitation. This recognition has been carried out through the production of different videos under the title of Mujeres Aguas Arriba. With this initiative we celebrated the role of rural women on 15 October 2024, and this video was produced:
Throughout the year, work has continued with the organisation ‘Hermanas de Tierra’, which was set up in 2020 in Portoviejo (Ecuador), around a water and sanitation programme of the FCAS. A group of women who have promoted their own empowerment from below, with the support of Spanish Cooperation, and who have brought together water, art and gender justice with actions such as the following one:
