Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs will not achieve World Vision’s mission or the Sustainable Development Goals if we exclude the most vulnerable. WASH approaches need to be informed by World Vision’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approaches to ensure excluded groups can participate in WASH decision-making structures and benefit equitably from WASH-related development interventions.
World Vision’s GESI approach actively strives to examine, question, and change harmful social norms and power imbalances as a means of reaching gender equality and social inclusion objectives in any given context and technical program area. GESI is integral to achieving World Vision’s “Our Promise” global strategy and child well-being objectives. GESI approaches typically tackle access, decision-making, participation, systems, and well-being.
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