Mulheres, água e educação ambiental: olhares diversos na promoção de interconexões

Abstract

Socio-environmental and cultural diversity has been gaining special attention in recent years in response to civil society struggles to incorporating complex themes into the international agendas. Given their particularities, when it comes to making public policies these agendas do not always meet the demands of territories. Seeking to bring them closer and reframe to local contexts, Mupan - Mulheres em Ação no Pantanal (in English, Women in Action in the Pantanal) promoted the Formação em Gênero, Água e Educação Ambiental (GAEA) in English, Training in Gender, Water and Environmental Education. Thus the present investigation aimed to problematize the contributions from the GAEA Formation for the description of the use of such formative process construction in addition to reflecting on a priority of international agendas for the strengthening of public policies in Pantanal. The researcher's trajectory - personal, professional and academic - in constant learning in search of gender equality and equity is interconnected with the complexity of the GAEA Formation with the multidimensionality of the themes of gender, water and environmental education and with the territorial as well as the cultural dynamics of Pantanal. This is a qualitative research with a biographical nature having as one of the main objects of analysis the students experiences reports as they are the result of the related process. Theoretical references and institutional documents were fundamental for the construction of the current narrative, among them the Dublin Declaration (1992), the Millennium Declaration (2000) and CNRH Resolution 98/2009 materialize performances for gender, water and environmental education interconnections, as it also substantiate a dialogicity and approximations of international agendas for territories. In this context convergences and distances emerge as well as the importance of the empowerment of local leaders, especially women, aiming a more effective protagonism role with criticism and security in face of the unequal forces in current hegemonic policies. Materialization and unfolding of the GAEA formative process are added to the dynamics of construction as a motivating initiative which is capable of provoking reflections and generating knowledge and recognition of the problems and opportunities of the places where one lives as a territory of life. Still the importance of local actors developing gender equality and equity based on the empowerment of leaders, especially women, in the defense and conservation of the environment for the improvement and maintenance of the population's quality of life. Furthermore, even with all the efforts during the Training (themes and interventions), they were insufficient to contemplate the diversity of discussions on threats and impacts, or even the socio-cultural and environmental wealth in the Pantanal territory.