Women empowerment in disaster recovery

当涉及到灾难恢复的设计时，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年)。新冠肺炎大流行也不例外。各国政府的反应主要集中在其直接影响上，而没有考虑到这些影响的权衡和意想不到的后果。例如，性别分工中先前存在的不平等现象进一步加深，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，使灾害/危机恢复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。这项研究旨在开发一种设计主导的系统，将妇女作为社区社会重建战略的主角，可以整合到现有的服务中。这可以通过应用设计研究方法来实现，例如在参与者积极参与过程的情况下进行联合设计。该提案建议，为了规划包括妇女在内的恢复工作，我们应该预测问题，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.