Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan
This paper aims to identify the gender issues in flood situation by investigating the experiences of women and men during flood disaster. It is also focusing on factors that contributes to and affects women’s vulnerability during flood. Literature on gender and disasters shows the importance of gend...
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| author | Hayrol Aziz, Farah Syazwani Selamat, Nor Hafizah Endut, Noraida |
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| description | This paper aims to identify the gender issues in flood situation by investigating the experiences of women and men during flood disaster. It is also focusing on factors that contributes to and affects women’s vulnerability during flood. Literature on gender and disasters shows the importance of gender in disaster mitigation to increase women’s resilience to disaster. Therefore, this paper also seeks to understand, whether gender has been adequately addressed in the local disaster management plan and its consequences. Drawing on narrative accounts from three focus group discussions involving 23 respondents, the study investigates the impacts of floods event on women’s lives, livelihoods, and health. The research finding shows that there are still gender gap in flood disaster responses and in the existing disaster management plan. Aids were not equally distributed among victims, with too much emphasized for those who were staying at the flood-evacuation centre while marginalizing those who were staying at relative’s house or other places. Women with small children whose husbands were away have to independently survive, and single mothers were not given enough attention during the emergency times. Therefore, current responses and procedures to flood disaster management model have to be reviewed and gender dimension have to be integrated in order to significantly improve the preparedness and relief program during flood disaster. This study highlights the need of detailed analysis on how disaster or flood affects women and how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) planning could be more gender-sensitive. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-312962016-12-22T08:14:35Z http://eprints.usm.my/31296/ Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan Hayrol Aziz, Farah Syazwani Selamat, Nor Hafizah Endut, Noraida B1-5802 Philosophy (General) This paper aims to identify the gender issues in flood situation by investigating the experiences of women and men during flood disaster. It is also focusing on factors that contributes to and affects women’s vulnerability during flood. Literature on gender and disasters shows the importance of gender in disaster mitigation to increase women’s resilience to disaster. Therefore, this paper also seeks to understand, whether gender has been adequately addressed in the local disaster management plan and its consequences. Drawing on narrative accounts from three focus group discussions involving 23 respondents, the study investigates the impacts of floods event on women’s lives, livelihoods, and health. The research finding shows that there are still gender gap in flood disaster responses and in the existing disaster management plan. Aids were not equally distributed among victims, with too much emphasized for those who were staying at the flood-evacuation centre while marginalizing those who were staying at relative’s house or other places. Women with small children whose husbands were away have to independently survive, and single mothers were not given enough attention during the emergency times. Therefore, current responses and procedures to flood disaster management model have to be reviewed and gender dimension have to be integrated in order to significantly improve the preparedness and relief program during flood disaster. This study highlights the need of detailed analysis on how disaster or flood affects women and how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) planning could be more gender-sensitive. 2016-11-16 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/31296/1/Farah_Syazwani_Hayrol_Aziz1.pdf Hayrol Aziz, Farah Syazwani and Selamat, Nor Hafizah and Endut, Noraida (2016) Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan. In: 3rd KANITA POSTGRADUATE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER STUDIES, 16 – 17 November 2016, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. |
| spellingShingle | B1-5802 Philosophy (General) Hayrol Aziz, Farah Syazwani Selamat, Nor Hafizah Endut, Noraida Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan |
| title | Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan |
| title_full | Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan |
| title_fullStr | Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan |
| title_short | Women, Gender, And Disaster: A Case Study Of Flood Victims In Kota Bharu, Kelantan |
| title_sort | women gender and disaster a case study of flood victims in kota bharu kelantan |
| topic | B1-5802 Philosophy (General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/31296/1/Farah_Syazwani_Hayrol_Aziz1.pdf |
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