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Gender and Class in Disaster Response by Krishna Kant is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses the need for a paradigm shift in humanitarian response to consider gender and social equity. It notes that disasters exacerbate existing gender and class-based vulnerabilities. It calls for disaster risk reduction to become a conscious practice, and for responses to come from local communities to reduce response times. Key issues identified from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami include a lack of gender-disaggregated data, gender-blind shelter designs, and post-disaster assistance that m

Author

Krishna Kant

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EN