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This note on integrating
gender-sensitive disaster risk management (DRM) in
community-driven development (CDD) Programs is the sixth in
a series of guidance notes on gender issues in 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 incorporating
gender-sensitive DRM into CDD programs, identifies the key
challenges, and recommends strategies and tools. Poor women
and men are more at risk from adverse impacts of natural
hazards. Vulnerability to the risks and income shocks
resulting from natural disasters is one of the fundamental
dimensions of poverty (World Bank, 2009). Many of the
communities in which CDD programs are being implemented are
disaster-prone and sensitive to the impacts of climate
change. Initiatives to strengthen the resilience of poor and
vulnerable men and women to natural hazard and climate
change impacts can not only contribute to improving their
livelihoods and safety but also to protecting the
substantial investments being made in poverty reduction,
infrastructure and services provision.
