Women empowerment in disaster recovery

在灾难恢复的设计方面，评估往往侧重于可见和可量化的影响，而忽视了对妇女影响最大的暴力和排斥形式（GFDRR，2018）。COVID-19疫情也不例外。各国政府的反应主要集中在其直接影响上，而没有考虑到其利弊和意外后果。例如，先前存在的性别分工不平等现象加深，家庭暴力进一步加剧。因此，可以利用这些情况作为一个机会，使灾后/危机复原工作朝着两性平等和赋予妇女权力的持续积极发展方向发展。这项研究的目的是建立一个设计主导的系统，使妇女成为社区社会重建战略的主角，并将其纳入现有服务。这可以通过应用设计研究方法来实现，例如参与者积极参与过程的共同设计。该提案建议，为了规划让妇女参与的恢复工作，我们应该预见到问题，并制定灾后实施的成果。

When it comes to the design of a disaster's recovery, assessments too often focus on visible and quantifiable impacts while neglecting forms of violence and exclusion that most disproportionately affected women (GFDRR, 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Governments response mainly focused on its immediate effects and failed to consider the trade-offs and unintended consequences of them. For example, pre-existing inequalities in the gendered division of labour have deepened and domestic violence has been further aggravated. Therefore, these circumstances might be used as an opportunity to tailor disaster/crisis recoveries towards the sustained positive development of gender equality and women empowerment. The research aims to develop a design-led system, putting women as protagonist of the community's social reconstruction strategy, that can be integrated into existing services. This may be achieved by applying design research methods such as co-design where participants are actively engaged in the process. The proposal suggests that in order to plan recovery that integrates women, we should anticipate the problems and develop outcomes that are implemented post-disaster.