Study Guide 10 Flashcards
It increases the vulnerabilities of women and men during disasters.
Gender-blind approach towards management of disasters
A phenomena. event, occurrence, or human activity that may cause injury, loss of lives, and damage to property and the environment.
Hazard
The degree to which people and properties are likely to experience hazards.
Exposure
It is the exposure of vulnerable communities to a hazard.
Risk
The potential disaster losses in lives, health status, livelihood, assets, and services, which could occur to a particular community or a society over some specified future time period.
Disaster Risk
Serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceeds its capacity to cope using its own resources.
Disaster
The concept and practice of reducing disaster risks.
Disaster risk reduction
An act to protect the people and their communities, their livelihoods, and their assets from the impacts of disasters.
Philippines’ RA10121 or Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010
Defined as the likelihood of exposure, potential loss, defenselessness, and the degree to which a system may react adversely to hazardous events.
Vulnerability
Individuals’ and social groups’ current strength
Capacity
Developed by people throughout time, dictate their capacity to handle adversity and bounce back from it.
Capacity
Long-term factors that weaken people’s ability to cope with sudden disasters.
Vulnerabilities
Categories of capacities and vulnerabilities (3)
- Physical
- Social
- Motivational
Can be used to assess change in gender relations as a result of an emergency, and of agency interventions.
CVA Matrix
