Gender Entry Points in Preparedness GenCap collaboration with the Pacific Humanitarian Team

1. Gender Entry Points in PreparednessGenCapcollaboration with thePacific Humanitarian Team Linda PennellsIASC GenCap Adviser – Pacific GenCap Technical Workshop (Geneva 15-02-2012)

2. Preparedness The knowledge and capacities development by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current hazard events of conditions.

3. Preparedness InterfaceCCA – DRR - DM CCA DRR Disaster Risk Reduction Climate Change Adaptation • Shared Vulnerability reduction • & • Building resilience • Mitigation • Adaptation • Disaster Response Preparedness • Humanitarian Relief • Recovery • Specific to climate related hazards • Long-term hazards focus • Origins in science • Covers all natural hazards • Focus on foreseeable extreme events • Origins in humanitarian assistance DM Disaster Management Adapted from: DRR & CCA in the Pacific: An Institutional and Policy Analysis, UNISDR, UNDP, GFDRR (2011)

4. Glimpse of Pacific Reality Preparedness is critical: response challenging • 14 island countries/territories • small populations – big distance • “death by teleconference” – scattered responders • “Catch 22” – loyal, sometimes spendthrift, donors • disasters shock micro economies - 70% subsistence • limited government & civil infrastructure • frequent hazards: flood, cyclone, king tide, volcano, earthquake, tsunami • emerging hazards: sea rise, saltwater incursion

5. Gender Challenges • High levels – GBV • High migration for work – family separation • Barriers for women: land, credit & employment • Women & men active in community preparedness but women absent in national and sub-national level DRM processes

6. Pacific Humanitarian TeamClusters

7. GenCap strategy • Engage PHT and clusters • Enrich inter-cluster coordination processes • Establish sustainable gender support to PHT

8. Engaging PHT and clusters • Gender analysis during and after disasters to inform preparedness • Preparedness tools • TA to humanitarian partners

9. Enriching Inter-cluster Coordination • Robust gender dimensions in the key annual Pacific DRM workshop • Capacity building • Simulations • IM –communications-advocacy • OCHA planning processes

10. Sustainable Support to PHT • Agree agencies responsible to implement the IASC Gender Strategy: UN Women, UNFPA, RCO • Revise UN Gender Group TOR - addition of humanitarian action as core responsibility • Create a Gender Surge Roster • Support UN Women to build humanitarian capacity • Ensure the PHT continues to have senior gender technical support – the three pillar approach

11. Capacity Building UN Women • 7-day humanitarian training – UN Women Focus: gender equality beyond women’s empowerment • Collaborative field analysis – IFRC /UN Women • Humanitarian links: work plan/links/co-hosting UN Gender Group • Presentations and training • Initial Gender Surge leadership/guidance

12. Thank you.