Gender-Sensitive Post-Disaster Assessments

This note on gender-sensitive post-disaster assessments is the eighth in a series of guidance notes on gender issues in disaster risk management (DRM) in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Targeting World Bank staff, clients and development part...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
AID
SEX
WFP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/10/16875749/gender-sensitive-post-disaster-assessments
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17075
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Summary:This note on gender-sensitive post-disaster assessments is the eighth in a series of guidance notes on gender issues in disaster risk management (DRM) in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Targeting World Bank staff, clients and development partners, this note gives an overview of the main reasons for assessing gender impacts as part of a post-disaster needs assessment, identifies the key challenges, and recommends strategies and tools how to make post disaster assessments more gender-sensitive.