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- Summary:
- This report’s goal is to present gender as an indicator of vulnerability, more precisely, to discuss the extent to which women tend to be more vulnerable than men in terms of disaster preparedness and management. The report also argues that women have particular skills that should make them central in the process of building community resilience. Using different case studies from South Asia, this report asserts that women are more vulnerable to disaster than men because of their limited access to available resources. From this standpoint, it is assumed that some people in society are more at risk or more vulnerable than others because of their low socio-economic status or their physical limitations, which tend to undermine their resistance capacity. The report underlines some key factors that are assumed to increase the vulnerability of women compared to men. These factors include low income, less involvement in the process of decision-making both at home and in political institutions, lack of representation in emergency management assistance, and limited information on emergency assistance. As a result of the disadvantaged socio-economic situation of women, the report invites the disaster preparedness and management community to take into consideration the notion of gender vulnerability and to look at mitigation not only from a technical perspective, but from a social angle. To conclude, the report advocates the necessity of building community resilience by using women, more precisely, women’s skills as the angular stone. The report provides a list of some of the skills women are assumed to have, which make them central in terms of ways to effectively deal with hazards. These skills include women’s day by day management and use of natural resources, their careful attention to emergency, and their risk communication abilities. This report calls for a gender perspective in disaster preparedness and management. More specifically, it is a documented advocacy for greater integration of women into the practice of disaster preparedness and management. ( English,English,English,English,English )
- Subject:
- Social
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Scope and Content:
- Foreword p. v; Preface p. vii; Acknowledgements p. viii; Executive Summary p. ix; Acronyms and Abbreviations p. xii; Some Key Terms p. xiii; Gender Matters: Lessons for Disaster Risk
Reduction in South Asia: Introduction p. 1; The gendered contexts of risk and vulnerability p. 4; Lessons from the field p. 9; Developing community resilience: women as part of the solution p. 19; From knowledge to action: some gender guidelines p. 24; The road ahead p. 28; Bibliography and selected resources for practitioners p. 33; Annexes: Annex 1: Aspects to keep in mind for gender-sensitive analysis of vulnerable communities before and after disasters p. 39; Annex 2: Livelihoods’ analysis: what do different kinds of resources mean to different categories of people and what kind of access do they have to them? p. 41; Annex 3: Gender-sensitive post-disaster reconstruction guidelines p. 43; Annex 4: Issues for consideration in developing gender-sensitive outreach p. 46; Annex 5: Self-assessment tool for disaster responding agencies p. 50
- Citation/Reference:
- Manjari, M. (2007). “Gender matters: lessons for disaster risk reduction in South Asia.” International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), European Commission Humanitarian Aid (ECHO).
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- Florida International University
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- Resource Identifier:
- FI13010934
978 92 9115 024 3 ( isbn )
929115024X ( isbn )
183162613 ( oclc )
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