Strengthening women as an investment in community resilience

The time has come in emergency management reform for embedding new partners in the shared responsibility vision enshrined in the aspirational COAG National Strategy for Disaster Resilience. Women are the largest elementary group in population diversity. What is their potential impact on community resilience capacity? Is there a link between strengthening women in society and the beneficial outcomes of emergency management goals?

Read the AIDR report ‘Diversity in Disaster’ (PDF 3.96MB) published in Monograph No. 3, October 2018

https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/media/6031/diversity-in-disaster-monograph.pdf