Gender dimensions in disaster management : a guide for South Asia
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Gender dimensions in disaster management : a guide for South Asia
ITDG South Asia, 2003
- pbk.
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first book to look at gender issues in disasters in the context of South Asia, where disasters have a crucial impact on the development process. It shows how exploring the specific capacities and vulnerabilities of men and women in disaster situations, and taking account of them, will improve the chance of success in development projects. The book also includes two sets of guidelines, for policy makers and for practitioners, to help them address these issues in planning and implementing development and disaster management programmes.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction 1.1 Disasters - a growing problem 1.2 Seeing disasters differently 1.3 Understanding vulnerability to disaster 1.4 Linking disasters and development 1.5 Current "development", a cause of disasters? 2. An alternative approach to disasters 2.1 The Alternative Perspective 2.2 The issue of gender 2.3 Gender issues in disasters 3. Impact of disasters on women and men, Realities of South Asia 3.1 Differences in social and cultural impacts 3.2 Differences in economic impacts 3.3 Differences in psychological impacts 4. Recognizing community capacities 4.1 Gender based differences in coping with disasters 4.1.1 Gender based differences in community preparedness for disaster 4.1.2 Coping as disaster strikes 4.1.3 Re-building after a disaster 5.Current practice, the absence of gender sensitivity in disaster management 6. Agendas for change, policy and practice 7. Agendas for policy makers 8. Guidelines for disaster management practitioners 81. Overall disaster preparedness 8.2 Focus on women specific concerns 8.3 Planning initial disaster responses/emergency management 8.4 Planning for rehabilitation / reconstruction 8.5 Monitoring and evaluation Glossary of terms Recommended reading
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