Sustainability Planning and Monitoring

PARTICIPATORY TOOLS USED IN THE MPA6.9 Matrix votingAccess to training by gender and social class, in NepalPurposeused for doing the jobs may be used as symbols.Matrices are used to assess the division of skilledand unskilled, paid and unpaid work related tothe water service and/or sanitation, betweenwomen and men, rich and poor.The same activity can also be used to assess accessto and income from training or productive uses ofwater, for women and men, rich and poor.ProcessWithin the group (which may be the members ofthe water and sanitation committee or male/femalefocus groups in the poor and wealthier sections),the construction, maintenance and managementwork done for the water supply and/or sanitationis identified. Participants prepare a card label foreach job. In case of low literacy levels amongparticipants, drawings of the jobs or implementsThe group then discusses which jobs are skilled/only for the trained and have a high status andwhich jobs involve only unskilled physical laborand are low status. They sort the cards into thetwo categories.The facilitator then draws a matrix on the groundor on a large piece of paper with three rows andthree columns. The second and third columnsget labels or pictures of “women” and “men.” Inthe first cells of the second and third row, thefacilitator places or writes the identified skilledand unskilled jobs.Using colored slips, beans or other local material,the participants then put the numbers of womenand men who carry out the identified tasks in therespective cells of the matrix. Different colors orshapes may be used to denote women and men81