The Women Water Watch (wWw) project, funded by the EU, is an action-oriented citizen science research project.
The project works with 20 female monitors in Bagamoyo, Tanzania who together create and spread water knowledge in their communities, aiming to give women a voice in water management.
By experimenting with different tools – flags next to water sources, a radio show, board games, murals, open-source data portals – they share information about the quality of water with various actors, from monitors to citizens and policy makers.
In addition, the project also involves children from local primary schools in the Bagamoyo coastal region as junior citizen scientists. They carry out water tests, but also learn a lot about the importance of access to potable water through the wWw board game, songs and drawings.
Students taking an Advanced Master at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB) have the opportunity to do a research internship at a partner university in the DR Congo, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Tanzania or Uganda.
One of those students is Gianella Jiménez. She is an international student (Ecuador) in the Advanced Master of Development Evaluation and Management (IOB). She participated in a field study for the Women Water Watch Project in several villages in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, assessing how children perceived water shortage by means of drawings.
Read her story on the Women Water Watch Project blog: https://waterwatch.HYPHOTOS.org/704#more-704
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