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Gender Equity & Related Issues
"Although there has been a
history of engagement in the subject of gender and disaster risk management and
recovery - on behalf of international agencies, NGO's and even some ministries
in select countries, serious efforts to incorporate the issue into risk
reduction and recovery practices is conspicuously absent. The country reports
analyzed in Chapter 3 are a stark pointer to the lack of gender-sensitive
planning, institutions and practices for risk reduction and recovery.
The irony is that gender remains one
of the most important underpinning factors influencing who does risk reduction
at the local level, and who can access its benefits. If disaster risk
reduction is to be realistically addressed across communities, gender equity
issues, gender-disaggregated data and gender roles need to be understood by
context, and incorporated into risk reduction and recovery practices. If
disaster risk reduction internationally and locally have to have any meaningful
impact on human development and well-being in the light of the MDG's, gender
roles and realities have to be a key consideration."
United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat (UN/ISDR)
Switzerland - 2007
The Disaster Risk Reduction: 2007 Global Review contrasts and compares contemporary trends and patterns in disaster risk with the progress being made by countries in implementing the priorities for action outlined by the Hyogo Framework. In particular, the Review identifies scenarios of intensive risk (where concentrations of people and economic activities are likely to experience catastrophic disaster impacts from large-scale hazard events) and scenarios of extensive risk (where more dispersed populations are likely to experience highly localised, low intensity but cumulative disaster impacts from small-scale, mainly climatic hazards). The Review examines whether current progress in implementing the Hyogo Framework will reduce mortality and economic loss risk in the face of earthquake and climatic hazard in intensive risk and extensive risk scenarios.
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chapter 2, part 2 [PDF 2.83 MB]
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chapter 3 [PDF 521.26 KB]
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chapter 4 [PDF 254.37 KB]
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annexes [PDF 525.66 KB]
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