(l) Design and implement gender-sensitive economic
(e) Mainstream a gender perspective into ongoing
relief and recovery projects and ensure equal
economic opportunities for women, including both
in the formal and non-formal sectors, taking into
account the loss of land and property, including
housing and other productive and personal assets;
research by, inter alia, the academic sector on the
impact of climate change, natural hazards, disasters
and related environmental vulnerability, including
their root causes, and encourage the application
of the results of this research in policies and
programmes;
(m) Make women full and equal partners in the development of safer communities and in determining
national or local priorities for disaster reduction and
incorporate local and indigenous knowledge, skills
and capacities into environmental management
and disaster reduction;
(f) Collect demographic and socio-economic data and
information disaggregated by sex and age, develop
national gender-sensitive indicators and analyse
gender differences with regard to environmental
management, disaster occurrence and associated
losses and risks and vulnerability reduction;
(n) Support capacity-building at all levels aimed at
disaster reduction, based on knowledge about
women’s and men’s needs and opportunities;
(g) Develop, review and implement, as appropriate,
with the involvement and participation of
women’s groups, gender sensitive laws, policies
and programmes, including on land-use and
urbanization planning, natural resource and environmental management and integrated water
resources management, to provide opportunities
to prevent and mitigate damage;
(o) Introduce formal and non-formal education and
training programmes at all levels, including in the
areas of science, technology and economics, with
an integrated and gender-sensitive approach to
environmentally sound and sustainable resource
management and disaster reduction, response and
recovery in order to change behaviour and attitudes
in rural and urban areas;
(h) Encourage, as appropriate, the development and
implementation of national building standards that
take into account natural hazards so that women,
men and their families are not exposed to high risk
from disasters;
(p) Ensure the implementation of their commitments
by all Governments made in Agenda 21 and the
Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome
document of the twenty-third special session of the
General Assembly, including those in the areas of
financial and technical assistance and the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to the
developing countries, and ensure that a gender
perspective is mainstreamed into all such assistance and transfers;
(i) Include gender analysis and methods of mapping
hazards and vulnerabilities at the design stage of all
relevant development programmes and projects in
order to improve the effectiveness of disaster risk
management, involving women and men equally;
(j) Ensure women’s equal access to information and
formal and non-formal education on disaster
reduction, including through gender-sensitive early
warning systems, and empower women to take
related action in a timely and appropriate manner;
(q) Document good practice and lessons-learned, par-
ticularly from effective community-based strategies
for disaster reduction, response and recovery, which
actively involve women as well as men, and widely
disseminate this information to all stakeholders;
(k) Promote income generating activities and employ-
ment opportunities, including through the provision of microcredit and other financial instruments,
ensure equal access to resources, in particular land
and property ownership, including housing, and
take measures to empower women as producers
and consumers, in order to enhance the capacity of
women to respond to disasters;
(r) Improve and develop physical and mental health
programmes, services and social support networks
for women who suffer from the effects of natural
disasters, including trauma;
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