Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Disaster Recovery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19935318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | World Bank (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1596/33684 |
| OpenAlex | W4235934175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
It is often assumed that all members of \n a population experience the impact of disasters in the same \n way. In the pre-disaster context, women’s and girls’ unequal \n access to social, political, and economic resources \n influences their access to post-disaster assistance and \n compensation for damage and losses. While the post-disaster \n context presents a host of challenges for women, it is \n important to recognize that women are not just victims of \n disasters. The strength of post-disaster recovery lies with \n how well it responds to the needs of both women and men. \n This guidance note aims to provide action-oriented guidance \n to local and national government officials and key decision \n makers who face post-disaster challenges and to assist them \n in incorporating gender-responsive recovery and \n reconstruction efforts across all sectors through robust \n gender assessments that lead to concrete needs \n identification and gender-specific recovery strategies and \n frameworks. Implementation of such actions will facilitate \n both a more resilient, sustainable recovery, and advances in \n reducing gender inequality. The note addresses the different \n challenges that women face in post-disaster recovery and \n reconstruction caused by underlying issues of inequality and \n marginalization. The note provides guidance on how to turn a \n post-disaster situation into an opportunity to enhance \n gender equality and women’s empowerment, with a focus on \n building back better, as the aftermath of a disaster can \n present opportunities for new and more progressive gender \n roles and relationships to emerge. The guidance note is \n structured around three key areas: identifying and \n prioritizing gender-specific recovery needs; protecting \n women and men from physical and psychosocial harm; and \n planning for gender-responsive recovery in the disaster \n recovery framework and empowering women for sustainable and \n resilient recovery. The final section of the paper provides \n a long-term outlook on strengthening gender responsive \n recovery systems
Business · Empowerment · Gender equality · Political science · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Gender Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |