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Preparedness and risk reduction / Shelter Cluster coordination mandate

GenCap Technical Workshop, Gender and disaster preparedness IFRC RO Shelter presentation, Mar 13 th 2012. Preparedness and risk reduction / Shelter Cluster coordination mandate. IFRC is shelter cluster convener in both permanent and post-disaster cluster activations :

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Preparedness and risk reduction / Shelter Cluster coordination mandate

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  1. GenCap Technical Workshop, Gender and disaster preparednessIFRC RO Shelter presentation, Mar 13th 2012

  2. Preparedness and riskreduction/ 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

  3. …shelterriskreduction and disasterresponseis first of all engagingwithcommunities….

  4. 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

  5. Shelter and gender: the windows of opportunity (preparednessoperations) • 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

  6. Shelter and gender: the windows of opportunity (cluster leadrole) • Ensurebetterunderstanding of gender dimension and makingresourcesavailable to cluster partners ( mainstreamgender in trainings, use IASC guidelines and promoteshelter-genderchecklistdonewit Oxfam/IFRC) • improvequality standards and tools to assistvulnerable groups (elderly and handicapped); someiswork in progress! • Fromassessment to programme design, implementation and evaluation of response: includegender dimension systematically. • develop communication strategiesthatwillpromote and ‘make the case’ (videos, case studiesetc > ‘ Sheltereffect’ campaignbased on ‘Girl effect’

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