Gender-Sensitive Post-Disaster Assessments

This note on gender-sensitive
post-disaster assessments is the eighth in a series of
guidance notes on gender issues in disaster risk management
(DRM) in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Targeting
World Bank staff, clients and development partners, this
note gives an overview of the main reasons for assessing
gender impacts as part of a post-disaster needs assessment,
identifies the key challenges, and recommends strategies and
tools how to make post disaster assessments more gender-sensitive.