Making Disaster Risk Reduction Gender-Sensitive: Policy and Practical Guidelines

Included in this publication is a policy guideline on gender mainstreaming, and practical guidelines on how to institutionalize gender-sensitive risk assessments, implement gender-sensitive early warning systems, and use gender-sensitive indicators to monitor gender mainstreaming progress. Also included is a summary of the limited global progress in this task so far, and a list of further readings.

• Chapter 1: Mainstreaming Gender into Disaster Risk Reduction: Progress & Challenge
• Chapter 2: A Policy Guideline for Gender-Sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction
• Chapter 3: A Gender-Sensitive Risk Assessment
• Chapter 4: Gender-Sensitive Early Warning Systems
• Chapter 5: Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Disaster Risk Reduction