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.

1. UNITED ADVISORY PARTNERS: WWAP
ADVISORY GROUP ON GENDER EQUALITY
The Advisory Group on Gender Equality will initially
serve through the 4th phase of WWAP, until the end of
2012.

2.  Co-Chairs
 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.

3.  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.

4.  Members
 Ms. Corzo Perovic, a native of Peru, holds a Master
of Science degree in International Development
with a specialization in Population and
Development from London School of Economics
(LSE). Her dissertation research was on the
feminization of migration. Moreover, Ms. Corzo
Perovic has obtained a Bachelor's degree in
Political Science from the University of Maryland
College Park in the U.S. and studied Corporate
Marketing in Peru.

5.  Irene Dankelman is an ecologist by background.
Already as a student she was a strong
environmental activist. For over 30 years she has
been active as a professional working in the area of
environment and sustainable development, working
with national and international NGOs, government
agencies, academia and the UN(UNIFEM, UNEP).

6.  Manal Eid is master degree holder in gender studies.
She has been working in the field of development
specializing in gender issue for the past 15 years
 She has worked on gender issues in several fields such
as health, education and sanitation, but has extensive
experience in the water sector. In the water sector, she
has worked on mainstreaming gender in the policies and
programs of the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources
and Irrigation.

7.  Ms Joshi is currently Assistant Professor, Conjunctive Water
Management and Conflicts, South Asia, at the Irrigation and
Water Engineering Group at Wageningen University.
 In her current work she focuses on the gender and political
representations of diverse conflicts and the inter- and intra-
household impacts of dynamic transitions in water allocations
and use in increasingly fluid urban/rural geographies and
economies, including the effects of urban water grabs on peri-
urban and rural water uses; and wastewater reuse in
agriculture. She is also working on climate-induced water
impacts on poverty and livelihoods in the Eastern Himalaya
regions.

8.  Kenza Kaouakib-Robinson was appointed Secretary of
UN-Water in March 2011. She is a Senior Sustainable
Development Officer in the Water, Energy and
Strategies Branch of the Division for Sustainable
Development, Department of Economic and Social
Affairs, New York.
 Her experience in the United Nations system spans
more than twenty years, including a five year
assignment at the Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia, as well as stints in various peacekeeping
missions. She has managed, for many years, national
and regional water resources projects notably in Africa
and the Middle East.