This note on making women's voicescount addressing gender issues in disaster risk management(DRM) in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) is the first in aseries of guidance notes targeting World Bank staff, clientsand development partners. The note gives an overview of thelinks between gender and disaster risk management,identifies the key operational bottlenecks, and recommendsstrategies and resources. Grounded in extensive field workin Lao PDR and Vietnam, and drawing on the significantamount of material already available, these guidance notesare intended to be first stop, practical documents that canbe used to design and implement gender dimensions intodisaster risk management work across the EAP region. Thetarget audience is World Bank staff, clients and developmentpartners active in the fields of gender and DRM. A gendersensitive DRM approach takes both women's andmen's different needs, constraints and opportunitiesinto account throughout the whole project cycle, therebystrengthening community disaster resilience and making DRMinterventions more effective. Addressing gender issuescontributes to reducing women's vulnerabilities andincreases their resilience to overcome the impacts ofdisasters. When done well, women and men can both benefit,and women can be empowered to make decisions and contributeto household recovery.
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