36. 在“十年”的上半期，为将妇女纳入与水有关的发展努力，联合国水机制建立了水与性别平等工作队，促进在水和环境卫生国际商定目标的执行工作中普遍纳入性别平等观点，这一工作一直开展到 2010 年。该工作队在制作政策简报，组织讲习班、会外活动、培训活动和关于这一主题的小组讨论方面，发挥了十分积极的作用。虽然工作队在 2010 年解散，但许多联合国水机制成员和合作伙伴将有关工作纳入了自身活动中，进而延续了工作队的工作。例如，世界银行集团、开发署、供水和环境卫生合作理事会、儿基会、性别平等与水问题联盟、联合国人类住区规划署(人居署)、国际农业发展基金(农发基金)、联合国粮食及农业组织(粮农组织)、联合国秘书处经济和社会事务部、国际减少灾害战略秘书处以及妇女促进水资源伙伴关系都编写了有关材料，倡导在水和卫生设施活动中普及性别平等观点。
36. The first half of the Decade witnessed an effort to include women in water-related development efforts through the creation by UN-Water of the Task Force on Water and Gender, which, until 2010, had promoted gender mainstreaming in the implementation of internationally agreed upon goals related to water and sanitation. The Task Force was highly active in terms of producing policy briefs and organizing workshops, side events, training sessions and panels on the subject. While the Task Force disbanded in 2010, many UN-Water members and partners continued the Task Force’s work by integrating that work in their own activities. For example, the World Bank Group, UNDP, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, UNICEF, the Gender and Water Alliance, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat and the Women for Water Partnership have all produced materials advocating for gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation activities.