Purpose This document provides a checklist of activities which ensure the inclusion and protection of injured and disabled people during emergencies. As well as general guidelines, it provides specific ones for: health and nutrition; water and sanitation; protection, women and…
Purpose This document looks at addressing the needs of people with disabilities in disasters. It provides guidelines and tools on including people with disabilities in disaster management. The guidelines cover the following areas: preparedness; immediate response; reconstruction and mitigation; and…
Purpose This brochure is part of the series ‘Together promoting safer neighbourhoods’ which consists of four booklets on seismic risk, developed within the framework of the ‘Strengthening capacities for preparedness and response to earthquakes in urban areas of Managua’s district…
Purpose This publication introduces the Participatory Video (PV) methodology as a tool to amplify the voices of traditionally excluded groups who are greatly affected by disasters. The publication outlines the steps involved in carrying out the PV process held in…
Purpose For flood early-warning systems to be fully effective, they must reach the end users and meet the different needs of women and men. Thus, a study on ‘Early warning systems from a gender perspective, with special reference to flood…
Purpose This briefing paper looks at the importance of gender within Red Cross disaster management and offers some suggestions about how Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies might integrate gender into programmes and strategies. Overview Gender shapes the extent to…
Purpose This document provides an overview of tools required for gender analysis. Overview The tools are: Sex-disaggregated data: For most gender assessments, separate data is needed for women and men. This is the foundation for the identification of societal differences…
Purpose This toolbox looks at different participatory investigative tools that can be used to accomplish a successful Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA). It looks at what, specifically, is involved in undertaking research in VCA and the different information-gathering tools available.…
Purpose The overall purpose of this toolkit is to explain to practitioners: what participatory tools are available for rapid market-problem diagnosis, socio-economic and gender targeting and, for each tool, how to use it, how to analyse the information and how…
Purpose This paper looks at how to integrate gender into the objectives and activities to be carried out for disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Overview Activities to be carried out for disaster prevention are: hazard and risk analysis; providing…