Summary: Sylvia Cabus serves as Senior Gender Advisor for USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. In this podcast, Sylvia speaks with Global Waters Radio about some of the many ways the Agency integrates gender into its water, sanitation, and hygiene programming, and talks about how gender mainstreaming contributes to improved livelihood opportunities for women, better educational access for girls, and greater sustainability for WASH development interventions.<br> The strong connections between WASH improvements and girls and women’s empowerment received prominent mention in the U.S. Government’s first-ever Global Water Strategy, released in 2017, which notes as part of its first Strategic Objective that “access to sanitation for women and girls is particularly crucial to preserving basic dignity, improving access to education and economic opportunities, and reducing gender-based violence.”<br> To view or download this interview transcript:<br> <br> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xuFnnM0HQ5VNWxnLaT_soWMqsJd3tq_Q/view?usp=sharing">Global Waters Radio – Sylvia Cabus Transcript</a><br> <br> For more information on subject matter discussed in this Global Waters Radio podcast:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.globalwaters.org/resources/assets/2017-us-government-global-water-strategy">U.S. Government Global Water Strategy</a><br> <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/bureaus/bureau-economic-growth-education-and-environment/office-gender">USAID Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment</a><br> * <a href="https://www.globalwaters.org/WhoWeAre/FocusAreas/gender-equality-empowerment">Globalwaters.org: Gender Equality and Empowerment</a><br> <br> To listen to the podcast, click below.<br>
