Chapter 17

Who is a Water User? The Politics of Gender in Egypt’s Water User Associations, Jessica Barnes

Participation in institutions of participatory water management, including in water user associations (WUAs), is frequently patchy. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a project to establish WUAs in one of Egypt’s provinces, this chapter traces the roots of limited female participation back to the way in which these WUAs were founded. I show how the rules of participation were set, enforced, and challenged and how project staff shaped what the WUAs came to be through their explanations of what it means to participate. I argue that these kinds of interactions and negotiations have profound consequences for how participatory processes subsequently unfold.

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