An evaluation and monetary assessment of the impact of flooding on subjective well-being across...
The intangible impacts of floods on welfare are not well investigated, even though they are important aspects of welfare. Moreover, flooding has gender based impacts on welfare. These differing impacts create a gender based flood risk resilience gap. We study the intangible impacts of flood...
Building back safer and greener: A guide to sound environmental practices for disaster recovery...
This guide outlines ways in which adverse environmental impacts can be avoided after disasters, and good practices can be promoted. It covers sectors including settlements and land use planning; building construction; waste management; energy; infrastructure; water, sanitation and hygiene;...
Building Back Safer and Greener: A Guide to Sound Environmental Practices for Disaster Recovery...
"This guide outlines many ways in which adverse environmental impacts can be avoided after disasters, and good practices can be promoted. It is written for government and non-government organization (NGO) technical staff including engineers and architects; humanitarian, development and...
Building resilience by challenging social norms: Towards a gender transformative approach in BRACED
This policy brief synthesises Zaman Lebidi and CIARE’s approach to gender as a resilience building strategy, defining a gender transformative approach and examining to what extent the project activities align with this approach. It gives an overview of the workshop carried out in Burkina Faso...
Building resilience for all: Intersectional approaches for reducing vulnerability to natural...
Intersectional approaches recognise that ‘people have different identities, needs, priorities and capacities which are not static, and will shift and change over time – affecting their ability to prepare for, cope with and respond to natural hazards and climate variability’. Building on the...
Building Resilience: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s resilience Effectiveness Reviews
Oxfam’s Effectiveness Reviews evaluate the impact of the organization’s projects on the lives of those they are intended to help. This research paper uses statistical meta-analysis to summarise the results of all 16 Effectiveness Reviews carried out under the theme of resilience between 2011...
Can market systems development build resilience in fragile contexts? Lessons from a comparative...
This learning brief aims to help practitioners understand where and how to apply market systems development (MSD) approaches to resilience-building in fragile contexts. It assesses the relationship between the MSD and resilience models in three MSD-focused programs in South and Southeast Asia....
Climate change, young women, and girls: vulnerability, impacts and adaptation in northern Thailand
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing our planet and its people. This report seeks to address a major research gap by adopting an intersectionality approach to better understand the different climate risks, vulnerabilities, adaptation and resilience among people of different...
Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast: Gender
In this episode of Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast we are talking to Sarah Brown, Alison Sneddon and Mirianna Budimir from Practical Action about their work on gender and disasters. Why is it problematic when women and girls are treated as generically vulnerable? How can a binary narrative of...
Embedding community-based flood risk management in investment: A part-to-whole approach
In this paper, case studies of pilot community-based practices in flood risk management in the People’s Republic of China and Indonesia are reviewed, and the lessons learned serve as practical guidelines. These basic guiding principles form the backbone of the CBFRM process and are relevant...
Engendering Budgets: A Practitioners Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive...
This guide therefore attempts to fill a specific gap in the literature and assemble in one document some of the background information that practitioners should have at their disposal to answer questions about how to design and implement a GRB. The guide consists of four parts: Part 1: Getting...
Facing Disasters, Making Decisions: The Gender Dimensions of Disaster Management (English)
The Tsunami of December 26th 2004 struck Sri Lanka with a force that was both unprecedented and unexpected. It did not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, religion or socio-economic status. But, like in most disasters, its impact on different sections of society is different, adding to the...
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Flood Early Warning Systems in Nepal: A Gendered Perspective
This report presents the findings from Nepal, but the findings are relevant for those working in the HKH region and beyond. Through such studies ICIMOD aims to sensitize those involved on the need to integrate gender into flood early warning systems and to develop policies that encourage the...
Gender and Climate Change
Nepal is experiencing impacts of climate change in various forms including rise in annual mean temperature and increase in frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events. Women, indigenous people and the poor are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Yet, people and communities -...
Gender and Disasters
UNDP recognizes the strong relationship between gender equality and disaster resilience, and the importance of this relationship to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is necessary to include women s and men s voices, needs and expertise equally in disaster risk...
Gender and diversity for urban resilience: An analysis
This publication sets out the principles and policies that guide IFRC's approach to addressing gender differences in disaster management. It gives examples of gender and diversity based risks and vulnerabilities in urban area and draws specific attention to the social and economic inequalities,...
Gender and Market Development
Market systems development (MSD) is an approach to poverty alleviation that facilitates change in market systems to benefit the poor. But who, ultimately, ends up benefiting? Women and men experience market systems differently and gender can define their unique constraints and opportunities. MSD...
Gender and Resilience
This paper reviews different approaches to incorporating gender equality objectives into resilience projects and to monitoring gender equality outcomes. It uses a sample of project proposals from DFID s Building Resilience to Climate Extremes and Disasters programme (BRACED) and makes suggestions...
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from Peru
The majority of studies on gender and climate change have been conducted in rural contexts, pointing to clear evidence gaps with respect to climate compatible development interventions that integrate a gender approach in urban areas. With the aim of contributing new evidence on the subject, this...
Gender Inclusive-Disaster Risk Management
The Asia and Pacific region is the world s most disaster prone area. Between 1970 and 2010, the average number of people in the region exposed to yearly flooding increased from 30 million to 64 million, and the population living in cyclone-prone areas grew from 72 million to 121 million.1 Women...
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