Gender issues are context dependent. Each culture has its own way of characterizing female and male role in the society. Clearly issues affecting women have become predominant features of public debate and mainstreaming.
To pursue a harmonious and systematic development of national and regional agenda and policies
in the Mediterranean Region, gender perspectives in water sector must insure the interests and needs
of women as well as men.
Gender issues at times have been confined as “women development” and kept compartmentalized as a marginal program within water sector.