World: Online Certificate Course in Mainstreaming Gender into Community Based Disaster Risk Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Owing to different life experiences, women and men differ in how they experience, respond to, and recover from disasters. When disaster strikes, men and women have different abilities and ways of responding, and, in the end, the impacts are different. Gender-based social, economic, religious and cultural construct marginalize women across all communities and groups, irrespective of class, caste, economic standing, status, ethnicity or age. Therefore, a disaster response must meet the disaster-related needs of women, men, and all marginalized groups, and those stakeholders should participate in disaster preparedness, mitigation, recovery and reconstruction.

Based on this premise, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030, states that, in designing and implementing policies and plans on disaster reduction, the participation of relevant stakeholders such as women and the marginalized groups should be considered. It also emphasizes the need for capacity development measures for women to participate effectively in each and every steps of disaster preparedness, emergency response, recovery and reconstruction. The course seeks to fill the gaps in practical guidance in gender mainstreaming in disaster risk management at the local and community level.

This course will strengthen the participants’ knowledge and skills in integrating gender in the concepts and practices of community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

General Course Objectives
The main course objective is to build the capacity of participants to integrate gender perspective in disaster risk management so as to ensure that both women and men have the necessary capacities in addressing their respective vulnerabilities to enable them to protect themselves, their families and their immediate communities. The specific objectives are to:

1. Review the concepts of disasters and Community-Based Disaster Risk Management.
2. Introduce participants to the gender perspective in Community-based disaster risk management.
3. Expose the participants on the process of gender sensitive disaster risk assessment.
4. Introduce the participants to Gender Sensitive Disaster Risk Management for effective disaster risk reduction, response and recovery
5. To identify the gaps and opportunities for mainstreaming gender sensitivity into disaster risk reduction with specific focus on Sendai Framework implementation.

COURSE OUTLINE
This part-time course comprises seven (7) modules. The module outline is included below:

PRE – Training

• Introductory Course in the Online Training System
• Course navigation and guide
• Explanation of course resources

Module1: Introduction to Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

• Introduction
• The concept of community-based disaster risk management
• The importance of community in CBDRM
• The Core principles of CBDRM
• Basic concepts: Disaster and disaster risk management
• Definition of key terms and concepts in CBDRM
• Assignment

Module 2: Gender Perspective in Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

• Introduction
• Gender and disaster
• Why it is important to consider gender issues in CBDRM?
• Gender Perspective in CBDRM?
• Gender mainstreaming in CBDRM
• Assignment

Module 3: Gender-Sensitive Risk Assessment

• Introduction
• Defining Risk Identification, Risk Analysis, and Risk Evaluation
• Participatory vulnerability and capacity assessment
• Understanding disaster risk assessment
• The need to make risk assessment gender-sensitive
• How to conduct a gender-sensitive risk assessment
• Assignment

Module 4: Gender-Sensitive Disaster Early Warning System

• Introduction
• Understanding early warning
• The need for gender-sensitive early warning system
• How to build a gender-sensitive early warning system
• Challenges to gender-inclusive disaster risk reduction
• Assignment

Module 5: Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Disaster Risk Reduction

• Introduction
• Defining indicators
• The importance of indicators
• Understanding gender-sensitive indicators
• How to build good gender-sensitive indicators
• How to use indicators during the programme cycle of a disaster risk reduction intervention
• Assignment

Module 6: Disaster Risk Reduction for Sustainable Development

• Introduction
• The Evolution of disaster risk reduction
• Understanding the concept or disaster risk management
• Disaster risk reduction for sustainable development
• Relevance of disaster to sustainable development
• Examining the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction 2015 - 2030
• The Sendai Framework for Disaster Reduction & The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• The Sendai Framework and Post-2015 disaster risk challenge.
• Assignment

Module 7: Final Examination

• Final Examination
• Participants Evaluation of Course/Feedback

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
This is an online course, so you'll need to have a computer with an Internet connection, and you'll need a web-browser (you can use IE or FireFox). All the course materials you'll need to complete this course are provided in the course modules. You will not need to purchase any additional materials, resources, or books. You will also have the opportunity of experiencing the best online training platform.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

• Online, interactive, self-paced and self-learning modules.
• Assignments to test your knowledge and understanding before and after the course.
• Opportunity to post comments, assignment answers, live chat and blogging etc.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course aims at United Nations staff, humanitarian workers, social workers, law enforcement officials, women activists, research officers, disaster risk managers, gender desk officers and consultants, involved in facilitating integration of non discriminatory behaviour and equality between men and women.

Award of the Certificates:

Statistics from previous courses showed that submission of assignments and receiving online tutoring helped participants to integrate gender in their various activities. Certificates can be awarded only to those students who:

1. Completed all assignments and Final Exam
2. Obtain a combined final mark of 50% or more for the assignments and Final Exam.

Successful students will receive the GHRLTI Certification in Community-based Disaster Risk Management.

LOCATION: Online [Web-based]

Further inquiries about the course may be sent to email: applications@justicegroup.org OR global4learning@gmail.com.

You can also visit the course website at http://www.justicegroup.us/disaster-risk-management

To register for the course, complete the application form and send by mail to email: applications@justicegroup.org. For more information and to download an application form, please visit our website at http://www.justicegroup.us/disaster-risk-management . However, applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Further inquiries about the course may be sent to email:applications@justicegroup.org OR global4learning@gmail.com.