LocationsEnGenDER
Enabling Gender-Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean
Background
The Enabling Gender-Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean (EnGenDER) Project is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean with support from the Governments of Canada and the United Kingdom. The project aims to improve climate and disaster resilience for key vulnerable populations such as women, youth, the elderly and persons with disabilities in the Caribbean. Implementing Partners include UN Women, World Food Programme and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).
Women and men typically respond and react differently in the various stages of disasters and recovery; and the groups with the least knowledge and capacity to take short-term measures to limit impacts from climate-related disasters are often the most affected. EnGenDER seeks to further integrate gender equality and human-rights based approaches into disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and environmental management frameworks and interventions and identify and address some of the gaps to ensure equal access to solutions for men, women, boys and girls in nine Caribbean countries.
Participating Countries:
Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname
Expected Results:
- Ensure that climate change and disaster risk reduction actions are better informed by an analysis of gender inequalities, and decisions are taken to ensure that inequalities are alleviated rather than exacerbated.
- Empower governments to take ownership of their disaster risks and exposure with better national arrangements to deal with possible large-scale recovery needs, including improved shock responsiveness in national systems and better social protection finance tools for the most vulnerable.
- Improve climate and disaster resilience for women and girls and key vulnerable populations and future generations in the Caribbean.
