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Resolving Post-Disaster Displacement: Insights from the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

2011-2020, Book/Handbook/Booklet, Disaster Risk Reduction, Gender, International Organization, Report / By

Drawing on the rights-based approach laid out in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IASC Framework) and reflected in many of the Philippines’ own domestic standards, this report analyses efforts to resolve the displacement crisis generated by Typhoon Haiyan. The Framework examines the process for achieving durable solutions, emphasizing …

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Women in Natural Disasters: Indicative Findings in Unraveling Gender in Institutional Responses

2011-2020, Book/Handbook/Booklet, Case Study, Gender Mainstreaming, International Organization, Laws and Policies / By

This study was undertaken in order to compile policies and practices on women’s protection in situations of natural disasters and to document best practices in gender mainstreaming in natural disaster response and assistance, particularly, those that provide spaces for women’s participation. It was guided by an institutionalist perpective that sought to locate gender in laws, …

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Risk, Resilience and Responsibilisation Gendered Participation and Empowerment in Informal Settlements of Metro Cebu, the Philippines

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

In Metro Cebu, calls for creating a more ‘sustainable’ and ‘resilient’ city are also placing urban poor communities in an increasingly precarious position, with those living in areas classed as ‘danger zones’ simultaneously facing intensified pressures of displacement in the name of risk management. Amidst this context of multiple and overlapping forms of risk and …

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