Gender-Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction
Strategic Plan & Action Plan 2020-2030
Year of publication
2020
Specific thematic area
Disaster preparedness, management and/or response
Sector of governance
Disaster
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Coastal erosion, Cyclone, Drought, Flood, Sea-level rise
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Regional instruments Member countries
Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Republic of, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Sub-region
Southern Africa
Region
Southern Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Relevant GCM objective
- GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
B
Gender marker
A
Human rights marker
B
The impacts of climate change, and global economic forces are somewhat easier to map: for example, it has been shown that when rural men migrate to cities because their livelihoods are threatened by the effects of climate change, rural women left behind often face increased risks.
Ps 10, 12
Research shows that in most crisis situations, women and children account for the majority of those affected (e.g., more than 75 percent of those displaced by disasters, and typically 70-80 percent of those needing assistance in emergency situations).
Ps 10, 12