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The significance of promoting disaster risk reduction at international, national and local levels has been recognized in the UN-World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR). Under the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005–2015, all nations were agreed in 2005 to prepare National disaster risk reduction plan specifically focusing on five priority areas. In this perspective, the Pakistan National Disaster Management Plan was developed in 2012 as a part of institutionalization process. This plan especially attempts to take care of vulnerable peoples such as women, marginalized people, elderly people and disabled people and also clarify the roles of the national and local governments and residents for each type of disaster. When disaster takes place, it does not discriminate the gender and its impacts vary for male and female. In this connection, the Pakistan national climate change policy 2013 also intensifies the measures to mitigate the damages by disasters and to ensure that the elderly, the disabled, children and women get particular focus in evacuation strategies. The analysis further reveals that there should be disaster management training especially for vulnerable groups of people such as the elderly, disabled, children, and pregnant women and this need to be implemented in close coordination with community. It has been found that in any disaster the worst affected section of the community is the women and children and its impact varies depending on resilience capacity of individuals, households and community and to recover from the impacts of disasters. Higher the vulnerability maximum is the impact of disasters. In addition to women, children and disables, usually hit the hard because of their high vulnerability and low resilience. The chapter also discusses the tools for gender mainstreaming and engendered government policy, women and disaster impacts, gender in recovery phase, causes of women vulnerability, women are at risk and gender and DRR in Pakistan
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Samiullah, Atta-Ur-Rahman, Shaw, R. (2015). Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction in Pakistan. In: Rahman, AU., Khan, A., Shaw, R. (eds) Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Pakistan. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55369-4_20
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