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Training Manual To Support Country-driven Gender and Climate Change

Training Manual To Support Country-driven Gender and Climate Change, in policies, strategies, and program development.  The manual provides trainers, policy makers, and practitioners with background information to inform the development of gender-sensitive mitigation measures and includes material to conduct training on gender and climate change. It starts by introducing the nexus of gender and climate […]

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Gender and Diversity Strategy, American Red Cross International Services

    Among its core functions, the American Red Cross International Services Department (ARC-ISD) strives to support Host National Societies (HNS) to assist the most vulnerable people in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from man-made and natural disasters, and other challenges identified by key stakeholders including the affected communities. Neutral and impartial programs that

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Climate and Disaster Resilience: The Role of Community Driven Development

Community-driven development is an approach “… that gives control over planning decisions and investment resources to community groups and local governments.” Historically, programs using a CDD approach grew out of situations of crisis (financial shock, conflict, and even natural disasters) and were meant as transitional instruments for service delivery where governments (particularly newly installed administrations)

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Good practices on economic empowerment of women in post-disaster reconstruction in Tohoku and the Asia-Pacific

This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. It discusses what contributed to the successful achievements of the projects from a gender perspective, drawing lessons for collective learning. APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy

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Gender and diversity in food security and livelihoods programming

Gender and diversity-sensitive food security and livelihoods programming lead to a more equitable, effective and efficient outcomes for all members of affected communities. This guidance note provides an overview of gender and diversity issue and practical   measures that  Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers should bear in mind when designing ,implementing and evaluating

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