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mitigation and preparedness), response and recovery, while raising their awareness,
and promote cooperation among them;
(d) Ensure the full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights in
every phase of disaster risk reduction (prevention, mitigation and preparedness),
response and recovery;
(e) Make the utmost effort to secure equal access for women and men to
disaster relief assistance and provide disaster response and support for recovery that
is fully responsive to the needs and views of women and their enjoyment of all
human rights, with special attention paid to the needs of pregnant and lactating
women, families with infants, single-headed households and widows, such as in the
context of the provision of food and supplies, water and sanitation, the set-up and
management of shelter, safety and security, and the provision of physical,
psychological and emergency health care, including for sexual and reproductive
health, and counselling services, while encouraging the involvement of female
professionals and gender-balance among field workers;
(f) Ensure that in post-disaster environments special attention is given to
sexual and gender-based violence and to the prevention of various forms of
exploitation, including the risk of trafficking and the particular vulnerability of girls,
unaccompanied children and orphans;
(g) Also ensure, in post-disaster environments, protection and care of and
support to the victims of violence and, as appropriate, the provision of legal and
other relevant services for victims of violence to aid, inter alia, in the investigation
and prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence, taking into account women’s
needs in order to avoid the revictimization of women;
(h) Design, implement and evaluate gender-sensitive economic relief and
recovery projects, including vocational and technical skills training measures, in
order to help ensure equal economic opportunities between 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;
(i) Promote income-generating activities and employment opportunities for
women affected by natural disasters, particularly rural women, including through
supporting community-based businesses, the establishment of necessary social
services and access to market, credit and other financial services;
(j) Ensure women and men’s equal access to natural-hazard early warning
systems and promote disaster risk reduction planning, taking into account the
specific needs, views and all human rights of women and men, and raise public
awareness and provide training at all levels on gender-sensitive approaches to
disaster risk reduction, including in the areas of science and technology;
(k) Ensure women and girls’ equal access to and use of information, training
and formal and non-formal education on disaster risk reduction, in order for women
and girls to fully use these resources;
(l) Systematically collect demographic and socio-economic data and
information disaggregated by sex, age and disability and continue to develop gender
indicators and analyse gender differences, including through gender-sensitive needs
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