Thesis/Dissertation

Strengthening Capacities Towards a Resilient Future: The case of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Tacloban City, Philippines after the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan

2011-2020, Book/Handbook/Booklet, Disaster Risk Reduction, Foreign, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Social Development, Thesis/Dissertation / By

This thesis explores the experiences, challenges, and roles of people who identify as sexual and gender minorities in the context of disaster risk reduction management and practices. In recent decades, national and international institutions have exerted substantial efforts to reduce disaster risk and strengthen disaster management. In response to the increasing number and magnitude of …

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Gendered Adapatations to Climate Change: The Case of Rice Farming Communities in the Philippines

2011-2020, Climate Change, Economic Development, Foreign, Gender, Journal/Magazine/Review, Thesis/Dissertation / By

Climate change causing heavy rainfall and floods is one of the major constraints to agricultural productivity particularly in rice farming in the Philippines. Despite many studies on the adverse impacts of unpredictable extreme weather events on agriculture, very few studies have examined the differential vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies of male and female farmers in rice …

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Reality Check: Gender Mainstreaming in a JICA-Funded Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Project in the Philippines

2011-2020, Disaster Risk Reduction, Foreign, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Journal/Magazine/Review, Thesis/Dissertation / By

This research used a qualitative approach—drawing on semi-structured interviews, document analyses, and a non-participant structured observation—to explore JICA’s gender mainstreaming framework, how it affects a Philippines’ disaster risk reduction and management project, and how the local partners influenced the mainstreaming of gender within the rehabilitation programme. It followed JICA’s gender mainstreaming framework starting from the …

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