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  • 1Principal Lecturer, Development Studies, Department of Law and Politics, University of Middlesex, United Kingdom.

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Integrating gender into disaster risk reduction requires addressing root causes of vulnerability. Focusing on women

Keywords:
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  • Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Gender Studies
  • Development Studies

Background:

  • Acknowledged differential impacts of disasters on women and men over two decades.
  • Growing calls to integrate gender into disaster risk reduction and response strategies.
  • Evolving development approaches to 'engender' initiatives for efficiency and equality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Critically analyze how gender integration in development influences disaster risk reduction.
  • Examine contemporary initiatives for 'engendering' development and their outcomes.
  • Investigate the 'feminisation of responsibility' in disaster contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of gender integration in development and disaster risk reduction.
  • Critical analysis of contemporary initiatives and theoretical frameworks.
  • Examination of the construction of women as both at-risk and risk-reduction groups.

Main Results:

  • Contemporary 'engendering' efforts can lead to a 'feminisation of responsibility,' reinforcing gender relations.
  • The framing of women in disasters as both vulnerable and a solution can perpetuate gender inequalities.
  • Current approaches may not adequately challenge underlying gendered power dynamics.

Conclusions:

  • Disaster risk reduction must explicitly address the root causes of women's vulnerability.
  • Programmes need to focus on reducing gender inequalities by challenging unequal power relations.
  • Effective initiatives require a deeper engagement with and transformation of gendered social structures.