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How Can Promoting Women’s Participation (And Agency) And Responding to Their Needs Improve Disaster Risk Reduction? Case from Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Operations and Measures) in the Philippines and Sri Lanka

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

For gender-responsive disaster risk reduction (DRR), the most essential step to be taken might be the translation of DRR into an opportunity to transform unequal gender relations which are root causes of women’s vulnerability and exclude them from decision-making processes for DRR. Women and other marginalized groups of people are often regarded as more vulnerable …

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Minorities within Minorities: Filipino Muslim Women in the Midst of Armed Conflict

1991-2000, Case Study, Foreign, Journal/Magazine/Review / By

This paper focuses on the impact the war has had on Filipino Muslim women and the consequent role women take in peace making. The first two sections will describe the ongoing armed conflict and will provide the oppressive context of the war such as existing conditions of poverty, inadequate civic services, graft and corruption in …

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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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