Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment: Update

recommendations

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  Given the current focus of water-related projects on improving water supply while the sewerage system remains the same, in planning water supply projects, consider renovating the sewerage system to prevent its failure.
  
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  (For the donor community) provide additional support for WSS-related projects and also address water pollution concerns. Suvokava local staff have pointed out the occurrence of water pollution in the secondary filtration nets of water purification systems.
  
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  at the start of the project, support the establishment of sex-disaggregated quantitative baselines on attendance at schools, households’ expenditure on treatment and medicines, levels of more common diseases among the population of project localities, and time poverty.
  
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  Support the MHCS in disseminating and discussing the project Gap with all stakeholders at the start of project implementation. Relevant implementers must be consulted on any Gap revisions.
  
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  Support the MHCS in reestablishing at least intermittently the position of gender specialist in WSS projects, to focus on Gap implementation.
  
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  to ensure national ownership and sustainable positive outcomes, support the MHCS in developing and endorsing the sector’s gender strategy covering staff- and client- oriented policies in all branches of operation.
  
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  In the implementation of the corporate gender policy, use the information management system to regularly collect and maintain sex-disaggregated data on project activities. Capacity-building interventions should involve the implementing agency at the central level, the project team, and community facilitators in setting quotas for female participants.
  
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  In Gap planning, process should envision allocation of sufficient funds for baseline and end-line surveys to evaluate the trends of key indicators.
  
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  (For the executing agency) Given the high turnover, discuss and develop an interagency mechanism for preserving institutional memory.
  
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  (For the MHCS) encourage public sector stakeholders to collaborate in project processes. Such encouragement does not necessarily require money, but might rather include public acknowledgment of the contribution.
  
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  Support the MHCS in further improving the database systems of information and consultation centers and WCas, and in developing sustainability mechanisms.
  
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  to ensure broader dissemination of projects’ knowledge products, support further collaboration between the MHCS and the WCU, other state and non-state stakeholders, and mass media facilities.
  
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  to ensure the construction and maintenance of sanitation facilities, involve both men and women in interventions because men mostly control the family budget, hygiene promotion, and education.
  

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