Gender Mainstreaming and Sustainable Post Disaster Reconstruction,

Gender inequalities are barriers to achieve sustainable post disaster reconstruction.
Mainstreaming gender equality within post disaster reconstruction process can
enhance sustainability of reconstruction. Based on a detailed literature review on
post disaster reconstruction, this paper identifies pre-requisite conditions for
mainstreaming gender within sustainable post disaster reconstruction as ; awareness
of gender needs and concerns, a strong gender policy framework, women
participation and leadership as an agent of change, gendered institutional capability,
flexible and decentralised structure of gendered policy planning.