Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC IFRC/ Shelter GenCap Technical Workshop, Gender and disaster preparedness IFRC RO Shelter presentation, Mar 13 th 2012

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC Preparedness and risk reduction/ Shelter Cluster coordination mandate IFRC is shelter cluster convener in both permanent and post-disaster cluster activations:  support to shelter agencies through different roles of the ESC team (coordination, IM, recovery etc)  support country level contingency planning and scenario planning  support government to address pre and post disaster policies and frameworks

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC … shelter risk reduction and disaster response is first of all engaging with communities….

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC Shelter and gender: the drivers Living in unfamiliar circumstances, after a disaster, can increase people’s vulnerability and expose to risk differently. Attention MUST be paid to different needs & responsibilities of woman, men, girls, boys in order to:  Minimize the exposure to health, safety, and protection risks associated with the physical environment  successfully allow them to rapidly rebuild homes and livelihoods

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC Shelter and gender: the windows of opportunity (preparedness operations)  Uniquely placed to understand the resilience of communities, safety nets, grassroot/volounteer networks working on preparedness (VCA/PASSA, social mapping, disaggregated data-baselines surveys, shelter/livelihood link, host/hosted communities..)  Capacity building of RC country level branches/HQ, partner organizations to collaborate on prevention/mitigation across sectors  Engaging with the private sector, Market analysis (labour force-construction materials) and identify gaps-potential strengths.  engaging with local authorities & raising awareness of disasters together with RC NS (disaster simulations, inter-agency coordination, capacity building initiatives) in both urban and rural areas

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC Shelter and gender: the windows of opportunity (cluster lead role)  Ensure better understanding of gender dimension and making resources available to cluster partners ( mainstream gender in trainings, use IASC guidelines and promote shelter-gender checklist done wit Oxfam/IFRC)  improve quality standards and tools to assist vulnerable groups (elderly and handicapped); some is work in progress!  From assessment to programme design, implementation and evaluation of response: include gender dimension systematically.  develop communication strategies that will promote and ‘make the case’ (videos, case studies etc > ‘ Shelter effect’ campaign based on ‘Girl effect’

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC Philippines RC Transitional Housing

Saving lives, changing minds. Shelter IFRC Haiti – Self Settled Camp