Under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) financed “West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project (WBDWSIP)”, SIGMA Foundation recently conducted time use surveys with 60 women and 60 men in 12 villages across 4 project blocks in Bankura. The primary objective of the survey was to measure time being spent by women in fetching water and other drudgeries which they have been facing because of poor WASH services. It also sought to capture the time spent by women in unpaid care giving activities and their perceptions regarding some basic gendered roles and responsibilities. The findings from the time use survey is going to guide SIGMA Foundation in the coming months for the preparation of a detailed Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Action Plan for the project.
