Introduction to Gender and Disaster Risk Management

An e-learning course that addresses gender concepts, the disparate impacts of disasters on persons based on gender, and how to design disaster risk management approaches to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. The learning objective is to understand how your disaster risk management (DRM) projects can equally benefit women and men by addressing:

• The concept of gender, and how gender roles can affect women and men’s risk and resilience to natural hazards
• How women and men manage, respond and experience disasters differently due to gender roles and gender inequalities
• How these differences should be addressed in DRM projects to ensure that women and men benefit equally from them
• Approaches to better design projects to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment
• Case studies that shows how gender equality and women’s empowerment looks like in practice