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    Editor(s)
    Walker, Bridget
    Publication date
    1994-01-01
    Subject
    Conflict and disasters
    Gender
    Keywords
    Disaster risk reduction
    DRR
    Conflict
    Disasters
    Country
    Bangladesh
    Pakistan
    
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    Publisher(s)
    Oxfam GB
    Series
    Oxfam Focus on Gender
    Document type
    Book
    Description
    There is a tendency for gender considerations to be marginal, or absent, in the response to disasters and emergencies. The need for swift action in a crisis, and the cost and complexity of relief operations, mean that emergency programmes are often implemented in a top-down manner, with little attempt to involve the affected community. Women, in particular, are seldom consulted about their needs and problems. The papers in this book consider some of the dilemmas of emergency relief operations, and look at the experience of women in situations of crisis, their particular vulnerabilities, and their capacities and strengths. The need to take a developmental approach to emergencies is stressed, and to support women in their role as family managers, and also as producers and providers. Seeing people as a resource, rather than as passive victims, and looking at their skills and strengths, should be an integral part of the approach by relief organisations in order to help the community to recover from the disaster and build for the future.
    Table of contents
    Editorial; Understanding the disaster-development continuum: gender analysis is the essential tool; Making good policy into good practice; 'Women and children first': how to introduce a gender strategy into disaster preparedness; Emergencies and development: ageing with wisdom and dignity; The effects of drought on the condition of women; Testimonies from Zaire; Emergency food distribution in Turkana: a developmental approach; Forty seconds that shook their world: the 1993 earthquake in India; 1 Rebuilding shattered lives; 2 Some problems women are facing; A disaster-preparedness workshop in Pakistan; Sudanese refugees in Koboko: environmental health interventions; Women refugees in Bangladesh; Saharawi women: 'between ambition and suffering'; Interview: Krishnamurthy Pushpanath; Resources
    Pages
    68
    ISBN
    978-0-85598-266-9
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121153
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    https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/women-and-emergencies-121153
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