ABSTRACT
The role of women in the decision making of transboundary water management is increasingly receiving the attention of academics, yet often the research produced is focused on women at the local or community level, not at the role women have in higher levels of decision making. Currently the decision making in the Nile basin is informed by the Nile-Technical Advisory Committee (Nile-TAC), a committee historically consisting of men with technical and engineering backgrounds, but over the past decades an increasing number of women have and are holding decision-making positions. This baseline study aims to get a better understanding as to why there are few women in Nile-TAC, how both male and female professionals experience gender as a factor in the transboundary water management of the Nile river, and finally, which enabling factors are available for women to reach decision-making positions in the transboundary water management of the Nile river.
