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14.4.1 Gender Integration as Reported Through the Hyogo

Framework, 2009-2011

The position of gender priorities in national-level disaster planning, mitigation, and
risk reduction is formally captured in the Hyogo agreement in several places.

14.4.1.1 Participation of Women's Organizations

“Priority 1.4” establishes the expectation that national governments will include
women's organizations in developing the national disaster platform; the reporting
on this item is to include the number of women's organizations involved. Eighty-six
governments provided national progress reports between 2009 and 2011 (HFA
Monitor 2011a ). Of these, the largest number reported that no women's organiza-
tions had been brought into the national disaster planning process:

Box 14.1 Priority 1.4

Countries reporting 0 women's organizations involved : Algeria, Comoros,
Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi,
Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, Anguilla,
Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman
Islands, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos, USA, Venezuela, Brunei, Georgia,
India, Indonesia, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Yemen, Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden,
Switzerland, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Marshall Islands, New Zealand,
Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Countries reporting 1-2 women's organizations involved : Botswana (1),
Antigua & Barbuda (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Dominican Republic (1), El
Salvador (1), Paraguay (1), Bangladesh (2), Japan (2), and Macedonia (2).

Countries reporting 3 or more : Burundi (4), Cape Verde (3), Kenya (10),
Nigeria (5), Senegal (3), and Guatemala (3).

Many of the governments reporting zero participating women's organizations
were able to partially meet the expectation of civil society sector involvement in
national planning. For example, Argentina reported that 22 civil society organiza-
tions were involved, but no women's organizations among those; Zambia had 21
civil society organizations involved, but no women's organizations; Canada had 30
civil society groups, but zero women's groups; Chile, 73, but no women's groups;
Germany, 70, but none of them women's groups.