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.

2.  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.

3.  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.
 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.

4.  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.
 She works as consultant and resource person with a range of national and
international organisations in water management and development
studies.

5.  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.
 In her professional activities, Ms. Corzo Perovic was an advisor
for a number of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Peru
and has worked with a number of international development
organizations in the US. She has over six years of experience in
research, project implementation, and monitoring of programs in
gender-related issues mainly in the Latin American and the
Caribbean region.

6.  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).
 Since the Women's Conference in Nairobi in 1985 she is
specifically focusing her work on gender and environment.
Together with Joan Davidson she published the book "Women
and Environment in the Third World" (Earthscan, 1988). From that
time on she has been working as a
lecturer, researcher, consultant, writer and senior advisor in the
area of sustainable development and gender issues, and
contributed to a wide range of publications and presentations on
these subjects. Recently she authored and edited the book "Gender
and Climate Change: An Introduction" (Earthscan, 2010).

7.  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. Working as
a gender specialist and consultant for several programs and
projects, she has managed to reinstitute gender in participatory
water management and involve women as active participants in
water management in Egypt. As a gender advisor for the Ministry
of Water Resources and Irrigation, she provided technical
assistance on gender awareness and mainstreaming strategies in
Egypt's national water resource plan and developed the gender
strategy for the ministry's gender unit. In addition, she has also
designed, initiated and managed gender empowerment programs
in different fields of health and education.

8.  Mr. Hamdy is Emeritus Professor in Water Resources
Management at Center International de Hautes Etudes
Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (CIHEAM) / Mediterranean
Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy.
 He received his Ph.D in Soil and water science in 1972.
 Prof. Hamdy is a recognized international expert in the field of
water resources management with more than 35 years of
professional experiences in coordinating the
educational, training, research programmes and net working
activities, having been the director of research at Bari institute
from 1980 to 2006.
 He coordinated several regional projects supported by
international organizations such as the European Commission, the
World Bank, IFAD, UNDP and FAO. He is also member of IWRA
and ICID working group on capacity building training and
education (WG.CBTE), GWP/Med, WWC and the board of
governors, Arab Water Council (AWC).