women's needs and contributions
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Buvinic, Mayra > (forew.)
- Creator
- Vega, Gabriela
- Creator
- Bertrand, Mauricio
- Corporate
- Inter-American Development Bank. Women in Development Program Unit
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- digitaal - C
- Thesaurus
- milieu, veiligheid, hulpverlening, liefdadigheid, vrijwilligerswerk, Latijns-Amerika
- Description
- This report examines evidence from post-Mitch Central America and disasters in other parts of the world to identify the ways disasters affect women and to highlight women's participation in prevention, relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts. It attempts to fill a gap in the knowledge regarding people's responses to disasters in the region, by exploring the gender dimension and providing general guidelines for integrating a gender perspective in effective disaster management. The report is based on a technical meeting attended by international and governmental agencies and NGOs which was held in Honduras in 1999.