United Advisory Partners: WWAP Advisory Group on Gender Equality - the-looser-it-s-me

The Advisory Group on Gender Equality will assist WWAP in mainstreaming gender equality considerations in its activities and products, in particular the World Water Development Report (WWDR). It will provide guidance and feedback on the design and implementation of the programme's gender mainstreaming strategy, provide expertise, and suggest actions as needed.

The Advisory Group on Gender Equality will initially serve through the 4th phase of WWAP, until the end of 2012.

Co-Chairs

Ms Gülser Corat

S. Gülser Corat is the Director of UNESCO's Division for Gender Equality in the Office of the Director-General.

Before joining UNESCO in September 2004, she pursued a dual career in the academe and international development.

Her academic work included research and teaching in the field of political economy at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa in Canada.

As an international development practitioner, she was a senior international development advisor for various bilateral development agencies (Canadian International Development Agency and the International Development Research Center), for multi-lateral lending institutions (the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank), UN agencies (UNDP and UNCTAD) and for civil society organizations, especially in Asia and Africa. She also has private sector experience as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an international consulting company (ECI Consulting, Inc.) in Canada.

S.G. Corat is a graduate of the American College for Girls/Robert College in Istanbul and holds a B.A Honours degree from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey). She has M.A. degrees from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). She pursued her doctoral studies in the Political Science Department of Carleton University.

Ms Kusum Athukorala

Ms Athukorala is a multidisciplinary skilled professional, internationally recognised for her work in IWRM, gender and water.

Crossing disciplinary and academic boundaries to water management from her 12 years previous experience as a university teacher in languages and cultural studies, she holds a MSc in Managing Rural Change, from the Imperial College at Wye, University of London.

She has been a pioneer researcher in gender and water in Sri Lanka. She has spent a large part of the past decade in establishing and growing an array of national and international organisations related to water management including SaciWATERS (South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Studies, Hyderabad – India); Network of Women Water Professionals, Sri Lanka (NetWwater); Global Water Partnership (GWP) and Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) Netherlands. »  United Advisory Partners: WWAP Advisory Group on Gender Equality - the-looser-it-s-me