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ShelterIFRCIFRC/Shelter GenCap Technical Workshop,

Gender and disaster preparedness

IFRC RO Shelter presentation, Mar 13th 2012

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ShelterIFRCPreparedness and risk reduction/ Shelter Cluster coordination mandate

IFRC is shelter cluster convener in both permanent and post-disaster cluster activations:

support to shelter agencies through different roles of the ESC team (coordination, IM, recovery etc) support country level contingency planning and scenario planning support government to address pre and post disaster policies and frameworks

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ShelterIFRC

…shelter risk reduction and disaster response is first of all engaging with communities….

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ShelterIFRC Shelter and gender: the drivers

Living in unfamiliar circumstances, after a disaster, can increase people’s vulnerability and expose to risk differently.

Attention MUST be paid to different needs & responsibilities of woman, men, girls, boys in order to:

Minimize the exposure to health, safety, and protection risks associated with the physical environment

successfully allow them to rapidly rebuild homes and livelihoods

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ShelterIFRCShelter and gender: the windows of opportunity (preparedness operations)

Uniquely placed to understand the resilience of communities, safety nets, grassroot/volounteer networks working on preparedness (VCA/PASSA, social mapping, disaggregated data-baselines surveys, shelter/livelihood link, host/hosted communities..)

Capacity building of RC country level branches/HQ, partner organizations to collaborate on prevention/mitigation across sectors

Engaging with the private sector, Market analysis (labour force-construction materials) and identify gaps-potential strengths.

engaging with local authorities & raising awareness of disasters together with RC NS (disaster simulations, inter-agency coordination, capacity building initiatives) in both urban and rural areas

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ShelterIFRCShelter and gender: the windows of opportunity (cluster lead role)

Ensure better understanding of gender dimension and making resources available to cluster partners ( mainstream gender in trainings, use IASC guidelines and promote shelter-gender checklist done wit Oxfam/IFRC)

improve quality standards and tools to assist vulnerable groups (elderly and handicapped); some is work in progress!

From assessment to programme design, implementation and evaluation of response: include gender dimension systematically.

develop communication strategies that will promote and ‘make the case’ (videos, case studies etc > ‘ Shelter effect’ campaign based on ‘Girl effect’

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ShelterIFRC Philippines RC Transitional Housing

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ShelterIFRC Haiti – Self Settled Camp