How can emergency relief and humanitarian assistance be more gender-sensitive? This report argues that emergency and humanitarian assistance tends to be gender-blind, responding to women's needs solely as victims and mothers, without accounting for changes in gender relations that arise out of crises. Gender differences and inequalities affect how individuals and communities respond to crisis and the range of options available to cope with a situation.
Heat wave plans and emergency response
-
Publication dateObjectiveApproach
-
Publication dateObjectiveApproach
While much research has been done on women refugees, relatively less attention has been given to gender issues in disasters and emergencies, as shown by this bibliography. This is despite the fact that the lines between disasters and emergencies and long-term crises (e.g. environmental crises) can be difficult to define. Entries give an overview of resources about assessing needs of, and providing assistance to, women in different categories of humanitarian assistance.
-
Publication dateObjectiveApproach
This document describes the outcomes of the APRODEV (Association of World Council of Churches related Development Organisations in Europe)-ECHO (European Union Humanitarian Aid Office) seminar on Gender and Emergencies, held 4-5 November 1996. The seminar provided an opportunity to share experiences on the integration of gender into humanitarian operations, and to produce guidelines for the European Union on gender sensitive emergency aid.
-
Publication dateObjectiveApproach
Emergencies and crisis situations have a different impact on women, girls, men and boys. During conflict, natural disasters, emergency and post-crisis situations women experience extreme changes in their lives. These are especially linked to an increase of violence, less access to health care, added stress on their livelihood strategies. To be more responsive to women's needs, humanitarian agencies have to take into account some operational implications.
-
Publication dateObjectiveApproach
The Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) is committed to the integration of a gender perspective into humanitarian responses and policies. Emergencies and disasters have a different impact on women and men. As a consequence of conflict, women often become heads of households with added responsibilities and workload, their reproductive rights and physical integrity are abused, and their nutritional and health needs neglected.
-
Publication dateObjective
The 46th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded that a gender perspective must be incorporated into the development and implementation of disaster prevention, mitigation and recovery strategies. This report briefly outlines why. It is not just about the vulnerability of women in emergency contexts - they also have a vital role in disaster reduction, response and recovery. Being able to respond to a disaster in a way that enhances gender equality and empowers women requires targeted capacity building including of emergency authorities.
-
Publication dateObjective
The aim of the review is to understand how technologies have been developed, how they were introduced and whether they have gone to scale and to start to explore the reasons why they were successful or not. The review is focused on technologies used in Africa in the water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector for long-term development (although some technologies are also used and have even been developed for emergency relief purposes).
-
Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountryBangladesh
-
Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountryBangladesh
-
Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountryBangladesh