Ignoring the social aspects, in particular gender in the management of land and water resources does not lead to the desired results in the water sector. The introduction of a gender perspective in water resources management is recognized by many international documents, such as the International Conference on Population and Development (1994, Cairo), the Fourth World Conference on Women (1996, Beijing), the UN Millennium Summit (2000, New York), the World Summit on Sustainable development. The relationship of gender and IWRM was discussed at the conference in Mar del Plata (1977), Bonn (2001), The Hague (2002) and Kyoto (2003) [1]. Moreover, gender equality is one of the seventeenth Sustainable Development Goals. In the Central Asian region, there are lack of awareness of the problem of gender-sensitive issues due to the lack of experts and studies. Dr. Ziganshina D.R. considers gender equality through the prism of the main factors of sustainable development: social equity, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability. Gender equality - an integral part of social justice. In the documents such as general comments №15 (2002) of the UN Economic and Social Council, in Article 14 (2) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) contains provisions on women's rights in relation to water. The strategy for achieving economic well-being should take into account the gender dimension, in view of the fact that 1.3 billion people living below the poverty line, 70% are women. One of the main issues stressed by experts, is the lack of opportunities for women to dispose the budget to the extent to which it can make a man, which is especially pronounced in rural areas. Moreover, food costs make up a large part of their costs. For example, women farmers in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan spending 67.1 and 71.1%, respectively [1]. Despite the fact that the proportion of women involved in agriculture more than men, the number of women in managerial positions is much less than men. Moreover, women's wages are lower than men's wages. In addition, women are often involved in the work of a seasonal nature. [2] To ensure environmental sustainability participation and respond to the needs of both men and women is important. It is noteworthy to emphasize that the term gender is not a synonym for the word of the woman, as many mistakenly assume. For the first time gender issues in the water sector of CA were discussed in the joint work of the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia (SIC ICWC) and the Canadian International Development Agency in 1996 - 1998. Further development of gender has received in the framework of the ADB project in 2003 - 2004, resulting in a network of organizations formed. [3] Given the labor migration of men in Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the role of women farmers and members of Water User Associations (WUAs) have increased. The independence of women in Tajikistan is expressed to a greater extent and to a lesser in Kyrgyz Republic. Economic difficulties limiting women's access to the control over the livelihoods. Men de facto have a more privileged status than women, which is especially pronounced in rural areas. In 2005, women began to be promoted to leadership positions in the agriculture and water management. Gender movement in Central Asia is gaining momentum. In a study of strategies for the effective promotion of gender the most difficult problem is data collection, monitoring and reporting. Along with the existing problems of gender equality in CA water sector, expressed by women's limitations in decision-making, access to resources, there is a tendency to change the situation for the better, particularly through joint projects aimed at increasing awareness of gender issues in water management at the macro and micro levels.

This particular chapter analyzed data from a survey of selected issues concerning gender awareness of water specialists in the region. The survey results are presented visually using GIS (Figures 1-5), which allowed to carry out a comparative analysis of the data of the countries of Central Asian region. GIS is the most effective and innovative means of analysis, evaluation and visualization of sociological studies based on demographic and other data. [4, 5, 6] The survey involved representatives of the Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. All questions (total 22) sorted by the method of transmission for 2 types of information: the first type includes quantitative data and assumed options answer choice from the list, i.e., a limited number of options, and the second - qualitative data, i.e., to answer questions on their own and thus contains a lot of answers.

Maximum number of participants who gave the definition of the term gender has been observed in Kazakhstan, they amounted to 88%. Minimum number of participants who indicated what gender means in their answers, marked in Uzbekistan. It should be noted that the total number of participants from Uzbekistan was the largest of all the Central Asian countries and almost twice the number of participants from Kazakhstan. The largest number of participants answered that they are not familiar with the concept of gender. They were from Turkmenistan - 57%, the smallest - 13%. - from Kazakhstan. Non-response cases has been identified in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, 33% and 13% respectively.

The most common sources of knowledge of participants of the Central Asian countries on the gender aspects of the use and management of water resources are seminars and conferences. At the same time, while in Turkmenistan, seminars and conferences is practically the only way to get acquainted with the gender aspects of the use and management of water resources (86%), in Uzbekistan, organizations and projects (7%) and documents of international organizations (7%) are additional sources of raising awareness on gender issues.

The majority of the Central Asian countries consider gender issues in water resources management urgent and requiring inclusion into daily work of organizations. For instance, the largest number of participants, supporting the abovementioned statement were from Kyrgyz Republic - 90%, while the smallest - from Kazakhstan (50%).

Speaking of taking into account a gender perspective in the activities of the organizations/projects 70% of the representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic responded affirmatively, 63% of the representatives of Kazakhstan - negatively.

With respect to the adequacy of information on gender issues in water resources management, only 25% of the representatives of Kazakhstan, and 20% form Kyrgyz Republic support the view that information on the subject is sufficient, while 75% of the representatives of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan believe the contrary.

Comprehensive assessment is made in the GIS using ring cards (Figure 6). This method of evaluation is usually applied in the interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data, with link to territory [6].

In this case, the map of CA is surrounded by a set, divided into segments of rectangles that simulate the response options. Segments coloring corresponds to the number of respondents ranked in 10% increments.

A method of annotation allowing to display information on a territorial basis has been proposed to assess the responses of the second type in the GIS.

Thus, research has shown that water management organizations of Central Asian countries are aware of the gender dimension in the management of land and water resources, and most of them supported the need to integrate gender issues into the work of the water management organizations, as well as agree on the lack of information on gender issues in water resources management. At the same time, gender according to the respondents, are being underplayed, with the exception of Kyrgyz Republic. In general, there is the active position of the representatives of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic in the promotion of gender issues in the water sector and the relatively passive of the representatives of Turkmenistan.