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HOW CAN PROMOTING WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION (AND AGENCY) AND RESPONDING TO THEIR NEEDS IMPROVE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION? CASE FROM POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION (OPERATIONS AND MEASURES) IN THE PHILIPPINES AND SRI LANKA Tanaka, Yumiko Nonoguchi, Akiko gender vulnerability coping capacity DRR transformation a gency practical gender needs strategic gender needs the Philippines Sri Lanka For gender-responsive disaster risk reduction (DRR), the most essential step to be taken might be the translation of DRR into an opportunity to transform unequal gender relations which are root causes of women’s vulnerability and exclude them from decision-making processes for DRR. Women and other marginalized groups of people are often regarded as more vulnerable to a risk of disasters because of their limited access to resources and decision-making power, necessary for coping with disasters. However, they are not helpless victims or passive beneficiaries, but active agents for DRR, if they are evaluated from non-gender-bias lens and given proper opportunities. In this light, it is essential for the government and external organizations to promote the agency of women and other marginalized groups of people, while reducing their risk, within relevant interventions. In reality, however, most of relevant projects have not necessarily addressed the transformation of gender relations, and concentrated on daily-based needs of women survivors. Based on this recognition, we conducted field research in the Philippines and Sri Lanka in 2015. Drawing on the cases of JICA’s and other organizations’ past and on-going relevant projects, we analyze how external interventions contributed to changes in gender relations, as well as the vulnerability and coping capacity of women and men.  Senior Researcher, Japan Development Service (JDS) Co, Ltd., Tokyo. (nonoguchi@jds21.com.)  Senior Advisor on Gender and Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo. (Tanaka.Yumiko@jica.go.jp) Findings from the research show that women’s agency was hardly addressed as a main objective of most of the projects, and women tended to be utilized as good mothers and care-takers based on stereotyped gender division of roles. Instead, some outstanding interventions to challenge for the transformation of gender ed division of roles have led to women’s active involvement not only in community-based DRR, but other community activities. eng book https://doi.org/10.18884/00000918 http://hdl.handle.net/10685/00000918 https://jicari.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/928 10.18884/00000918 https://jicari.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/928/files/20170529_01_EN.pdf application/pdf 2.6 MB 2018-05-18