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(g) To require implementing partners to utilize a gender marker system
and to report on associated gender commitments throughout the humanitarian
programme cycle;
(h) To ensure that, in every phase of disaster risk reduction, response
and recovery, special attention is given to the prevention of various forms of
gender-based exploitation and abuse, including the risk of trafficking and the
particular vulnerability of girls, unaccompanied children and orphans, and
women and children with disabilities;
(i) To ensure also, in every phase of disaster risk reduction, response
and recovery, the provision of protection, care and support to the victims of
gender-based violence and, as appropriate, the provision of legal, medical,
psychosocial and other relevant services for survivors of gender-based
violence to aid, inter alia, in the investigation and prosecution of cases of
sexual and gender-based violence, taking into account survivors’ needs in
order to avoid their revictimization;
(j) To design, implement and evaluate gender-responsive economic
relief and longer-term recovery projects, including vocational and technical
skills training measures, in order to help ensure equal economic opportunities
for men and women, paying attention to eliminating obstacles to women’s
rapid integration or reintegration into the formal employment sector, owing to
their role in the social and economic process, and taking into account the rural
and urban migration that natural disasters may provoke;
(k) To promote and involve women in designing income-generating
activities and employment opportunities for women affected by natural
disasters, particularly rural women, including by supporting community-based
and home-based businesses through such instruments as local procurement of
food and services, the establishment of necessary social services, and access to
market, credit, cash transfers, social safety nets and other financial services,
involving women in their design and taking into account the additional burden
on women’s time in the post-disaster phase for tasks such as securing supplies
of food, water and fuel and caring for children whose schools have closed;
(l) To ensure equal access for women and men to, and their equal
participation in, natural hazard early warning systems, promote disaster risk
reduction planning at the national, subnational and community levels, taking
into account the specific needs, views and all human rights of women, girls,
boys and men, and raise public awareness and provide training at all levels on
gender-responsive approaches to disaster risk reduction, including in the areas
of science and technology;
(m) To ensure equal access to and use of information, training and
formal and informal education on disaster risk reduction for women and girls,
in order to enhance their voices and participation in processes relating to
disaster risk reduction;
(n) To systematically collect, analyse and utilize demographic and
socioeconomic data and information disaggregated by sex, age and disability,
among other factors, for the purpose of contextual social and gender analysis
and for identifying and addressing the differing coping strategies, needs,
capacities, knowledge and priorities and vulnerabilities of women, girls, boys
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