There is a need to give space to women, their knowledge and capacities as well as their priorities in this sector, especially in sustainable water resource management, water-related disaster management and the design of sanitation policies. Huge data gaps remain in Asia and the Pacific for measuring the status quo as well as progress in improving access to drinking water and sanitation, thereby seriously impeding evidence-based policymaking. The Asia-Pacific region accounts for 84 per cent of people working in fisheries and aquaculture and 94 per cent of people engaged in fish farming. Of them, 66 per cent of the workers in large-scale marine fisheries and 54 per cent in small-scale inland fisheries are women.