Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction and Gender: The Southeast Asia Experience

• Main Author: Sembiring, Margareth
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Country and Region Studies; Southeast Asia and ASEAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80564; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40698
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 2005 Hyogo Framework for Action has called for a gendered approach in disaster risk reduction efforts. Despite being frequently battered by climate-related disaster events, countries in Southeast Asia remain rather slow in mainstreaming gender in their disaster management policies and action pla...