"Women are more affected [by disasters] than men

because they need to take care of the children, as well

as their garden and food for the family," said VDMC
memberBounta Nantavong. "Also they worry about the
health of everyone in the family. For them, this makes
the impact more difficult after a disaster.

"A determined woman can do everything a man can

do," said Mary Rose, adding that her experience
with Children International "

Prevention and Mitigation

Participate in the tree planting or
mangrove rehabilitation
Women leaders/ decision makers must
suggest for the improvement of the
safety of housing and public buildings or
Women be trained in building climatechange resilient infra which would
contribute to both personal income and
community safety.

Preparedness
Adequacy of knowing & understanding the early
warning systems
Female volunteers & female headed household
skilfully trained in DRR and emergency response
trainings (e.g., swimming lessons in flood-prone
areas and preparation of go-bags in earthquakeprone areas, Basic Life Support and First Aid)
Women are the ones who bring the messages and
knowledge to their family, to their neighbours
after the trainings, because women are more
active than men in terms of networking in their
communities.

Preparedness
Lead the DRR education to children
through IEC materials: posters and
activity books.
Engage womens groups as staff,
consultants, and facilitators in DRR
trainings, workshops and activities.
Women are also the main caregivers in the family
and community. When women learn new
knowledge, they like to share it with others. That
is why women volunteers are very important for
this programme.

Response
Support in hygiene and sanitation
management
Assist in relief distribution and management
Mobilizing female volunteers to reach female
victims
Women are more careful than men. During the drill for the
disaster
risk
reduction,
men
acted
quickly
and ran very fast to the emergency shelter. There is a woman
volunteer
who
inspected
the
houses
one
by one and found an old woman with disability had been left
behind,
and
she
helped
her
to
escape
the
house before the [mock] flood arrived. Community member

Recovery and Rehabilitation

Train disaster-affected women to be
coordinators of womens spaces and to link
the spaces with activities identified by
community women for their empowerment
Gender sensitive facilities such as
vocational schools for women and health
clinics
In-charge in sanitation facilities in order to
put into consideration the personal needs
of women such as personal hygeine

Recovery and Rehabilitation

Womens organizations must organize micro
insurance policies to allow community women
to protect their tools and sources of livelihood
Establish womens communal spaces in safe
and accessible locations. These spaces can be
a venue for women to breast-feed in private,
participate in confidential psychosocial
counseling sessions, link with disaster
response service providers, and engage in
livelihood skills-building sessions.

Recovery and Rehabilitation

equal participation of women and
men in reconstruction jobs - Ensure
that temporary shelters and
reconstructed houses are designed to
accommodate womens needs for
privacy, safe water supply, and
sanitation facilities.

Recovery and Rehabilitation

Provide tools and child care and breastfeeding centers to facilitate womens
participation in jobs.
Cash-for-work and food-for-work programs
that does not add to womens already
expanded workloads
Women have in them as better educators, managers and
in getting over fears. A womans presence in a village
health committee or training course contributes to
women getting over their fears and discovering their
abilities as both educators and managers. These women
are then able to greatly assist in providing guidance to
others. Secretary General, Solomon Islands Red Cross