Guidance Note: A gender-responsive approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) planning in the agriculture sector

Guidance for supporting rural women and men to build resilience in the face of disasters: The most important step in implementing a gender-responsive approach is to identify the needs of men and women, boys and girls from rural communities, and assess their capacities and perceptions of risks by engaging them as active participants in the local planning processes. As women may be a harder group to reach, this may entail a strategy to ensure that their voices are heard and adequately taken into consideration in the design of DRR interventions. In the following, five key actions are presented to ensure a gender-responsive approach throughout the planning process.

Type of Publication
Guidance Notes
Topic
Example, Implementation
Sector
Agriculture
Region
Global
Year
2016
Organization
FAO