The Gender Shadow Report: Ensuring Haitian Women’s Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction
Summary
Following the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s government, supported by the World Bank, led an ambitious Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)—an operative blueprint for reconstruction. Astonishingly, the PDNA failed to address gender issues. This Gender Shadow
report (GSR) provides the missing gender content for PDNA policymakers, donors, civil society groups and all stakeholders involved in Haiti’s reconstruction. It follows a parallel outline to the PDNA by presenting issues related to governance and accountability, environment and disaster risk
reduction, social sectors, infrastructure, the economy and cross-cutting themes.
Citation
Young, Elise, Elaine Zuckerman, Lisa Vitale, and Sonia Lowman, eds. The Gender Shadow Report: Ensuring Haitian Women’s Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction. Port-au-Prince: Haiti Equality Collective, 2010.
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