Enabling Poverty Development

Gender and Disaster

The cyclone in Mayanmar has had a large impact on Inepd. The disaster brings up many issues on how best to respond to respond to a disaster of this type. One issue that is often overlooked is gender. The initial discussions we have had on what type of response over the last week have missed some crucial points concerning gender and disasters. I also felt that there was no discussion about program details like formation of committees. We have started to draw up a logframe in the Asia unit to aid the response and think through some of the main issues. We are first developing a problem tree and expect to be finished this by the end of the week and then we will share this with the emergency unit and incorporate their feedback. The we will present it at the crisis team meeting next week. I think this approach is crucial in defining the goals of the response and ensuring its quality. I have been a bit disapointed with Brian the field representative in Myanmar who has not taken the time give feedback on our initial problem tree analysis. However, I think we have enough information coming from reliefweb and alertnet to understand the main issues.