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…
The Training Toolkit for Community Early Warning Systems is an operational manual that aims to strengthen early warning systems in a developing country context. It is targeted to National Societies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are embarking on a journey either to strengthen existing CEWS efforts in a country or to create, from scratch, a community-driven EWS. Trainers are DRR/M programme, project and partner staff members who would be responsible to guide, support or evaluate EWS efforts in at-risk communities.
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.…
The guidelines in this document aim to support National Societies in conducting Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) and adapting the VCA process to their own countries. It provides a suggested path for conducting a VCA day-by-day in the field, and its expected outcomes.
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…
Purpose This note is the fourth in a series of guidance notes on gender issues in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in East Asia and the Pacific. The first part of this note looks at reasons to adopt a gender-sensitive approach…
Purpose This one pager provides a checklist for community-based gender risk assessment. The checklist covers: identifying hazard risks; determining vulnerabilities (exposure); identifying capacities; and determining levels of risk. Usage: Guidance for project implementation Audiences: Technical staff; Gender and diversity practitioners…
The purpose of this Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) Field Practitioners’ Handbook is to help equip CBDM or CBDRM practitioners with theories and practical tools that can be applied in community work.