The UN/ISDR secretariat, in coperation with GROOTS International, a network of grassroots women's organizations, have facilitated the compilation of "Gender Perspective: Working Together for Disaster Risk Reduction." The compilation is based on the many contributions from community-based organizations, NGOs and UNDP country offices and aims to trigger more action towards gender-inclusive disaster risk redcution process.
This publication highlights the fact that disaster recovery and rehabilitation provide good opportunities for women to play public roles with the support of their families and communities. It also underlines the importance of working with both men and women to promote a gender-balanced approach to disaster risk reduction.
Some of the good practices are on awareness-raising and capacity-building, others are on women's participation in and contribution to building safe communities and households and equal access to information. In a nutshell, the publication showcases women's valuable contributions to community resilience.
A pdf version of the document can be downloaded via Reliefweb.
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