Education in Emergencies and Disaster Risk Reduction

• In Event: Poster Session

Abstract

The urgency for girls education is further highlighted in education in emergency literature. Specifically, the INEE reports that there is a “virtuous circular relationship between the education and the protection of girls. Education can protect girls, which in turn makes their communities more resilient.” To impact their living conditions, some form of disaster risk reduction is integrally needed. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction defines risk reduction as the “substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, and livelihoods. Similarly, 2004 paper calculated those women and children in developing countries are fourteen times more likely to die in disasters. One such example is the state of girls’ education in Afghanistan. First, this paper builds a data informed picture on the impact of girls’ lives and especially education. In this accepted culture, women are unable to receive supplies, see a doctor, and stay in emergency shelters due to the lack of female disaster risk reduction staff. Finally, this paper applied a gender-lens to the Afghanistan’s National Disaster Management Action Plan and presents key opportunities for impact that can be availed to increase content and approaches are gendered – informed such that both women’s participation and security is protected in disaster times.

Author

• Kate Shon, Crean Lutheran School