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HerStory: Facilitating Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment to the Single Mothers of Flood-prone Sub-urban Poor Resettlement Housing in the Philippines

2011-2020, Case Study, Disaster Risk Reduction, Foreign, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Journal/Magazine/Review / By

This article summarizes the major findings of the participatory risk assessment of single mothers of Phase 1k, Kasiglahan Village, Rodriguez, Rizal. Using Participatory Capacities and Vulnerabilities Assessment (PCVA), single mothers gauged their vulnerabilities, capacities and exposure to the hazards in their community. With this, HerStory responds to the challenges of previous studies on disaster risk …

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Do Adaptation and Coping Mechanisms to Extreme Climate Events Differ by Gender? The Case of Flood-Affected Households in Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines.

2011-2020, Case Study, Disaster Risk Reduction, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Journal/Magazine/Review, Other Philippine Publication / By

This study was conducted to identify and analyse gender-differentiated adaptation measures and coping mechanisms formulated and implemented by households during Typhoon Frank (international name Fengshen), in barangays Cayos and Bantud Fabrica, Municipality of Dumangas, in the Province of Iloilo, Philippines. The survey was conducted among 120 respondents who were randomly selected from the barangay local …

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Security in Adversity: Highlighting Coastal Women’s Agency and Efforts to Organize after Haiyan

2011-2020, Case Study, Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal/Magazine/Review, Other Philippine Publication / By

The paper aims to highlight coastal village women’s experiences with post disaster relief and rehabilitation. Using the postHaiyan experiences of women in the island-village of Bayas as a case study, the paper also emphasizes the opportunity that post-disaster contexts provide for coastal village women’s agency. Qualitative data for the study were gathered through a series …

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