Post-Crisis Needs Assessment for Equitable and Inclusive Recovery:

A Guide

Savitri Bisnath, PhD

Context

Builds on the first phase of the PDNA Designed to:

Identify specific post-crisis needs of women and men

Analyze findings Design actions Implement programs

Objectives

Collect and compare baseline and post-crisis quantitative and qualitative sex- and age-disaggregated data across sectors

Analyze needs, paying attention to the specific early recovery needs of affected area and women, men, boys and girls

Identify post-crisis service delivery gaps of local and national authorities, paying particular attention to services targeted to women and girls

Identify, design and implement gender-aware actions across sectors and institutions (gender-aware programming)

Enhance gender-responsive post-crisis recovery planning through inter-agency collaboration and shared response

Quantitative Gender Aware Baseline Data: Examples

[census] – sex- and age-disagg. demographic

data

[Gov't, UN] – home ownership by sex– % of pop w/access to

clean water sanitation facilities

– public & private health expenditures as % of GDP

[UN, NGOs]

– average family size– % of females who experience

sexual assault culturally inscribed harmful

practices

[HDR, Gov't, UN]– sex- and age-disagg. life

expectancy at birth – % of fe/males w/micronutrient

malnutrition– sex- and age-disagg. prevalence

rates for malaria, TB, HIV

[census, HDR]– sex- and age-disagg. poverty rates– sex- and age-disagg. literacy rates

[census, UN, HH & Livelihood survey]– sex- and age-disagg. pop w/

employment– sex- and age-disagg. pop

w/seasonal employment– sex- and age-disagg. pop

w/informal livelihood activities

Quantitative Gender Aware Post-Crisis Data: Examples

[Gov’t, NGOs, UN]

Livelihoods

– % of HH who lost sole income earner

– % of HH who lost primary income earner

– % of FHH who lost productive assets

– % of FHH who lost land

– % of fe/males migrating for work

Education

– % of boys removed from elementary school

– % of girls removed from elementary school

– % of single sex schools destroyed

Health– % of public medical facilities

destroyed

– % of public medical facilities to rebuild in new location

Qualitative Gender-Aware Post-Crisis Data

Gender-aware baseline data identifying:(a) who (female/male) does what tasks;

(b) who has the responsibility for which activities;

(c) who controls and can access which resources; and

(d) understanding why,

provide the basis and justification for developing more

gender equitable programming in order to build back

better.

Examples of Gender-Aware Post-Crisis Governance Questions

What types and level of support are necessary for local authorities so that they can best respond to early recovery needs of women?

Are there national and local recovery plans and policies in place to deploy in the aftermath of the crisis? Are they gender aware?

Are there recovery programs to reintegrate women who were involved in the armed forces?

Are there changes in the practices, norms and regulations that contribute to vulnerabilities experienced by women and girls, e.g., customary laws preventing women from access to, and control of, credit and property? If yes, will they improve the socio-economic well-being of women and girls? What early recovery mechanisms are needs to support the broadening of opportunities for women and marginalized communities?

Examples of Gender-Aware Post-Crisis Employment and Livelihoods Questions

Which economic sectors are damaged (agriculture, tourism, fisheries), and to what extent (partially, fully). In what ways (directly/indirectly) are women and/or men involved in these sectors? What types of economic infrastructure have been destroyed/damaged? What are the resulting impacts on employment and livelihood patterns in the formal and informal economy? What are the coping strategies of women and men who have been impacted?

Are women and/or men from affected areas migrating within, or leaving, the country? What are the push and pull factors? Are they similar or different for women and men? What is the short- and medium-term impact on the households and the affected community? What capacity building measures are needed to reduce the scope and intensity of the push factors?

Types of Gender-Aware Consultations

Informal discussions with individual women or men, small single-sex or mixed groups, INGO, NGO working with women

Semi-structured consultations Structured interviews Sector-related focus group consultations Issue related focus group consultations, e.g., women

Key Elements in the Conduct of Gender-Aware Post-Crisis Assessment

Sex- and age-disaggregated baseline and post-crisis data, including information documented during the humanitarian phase, are collected and analysed

Women and men from affected population are consulted

Women are members of the assessment teams Assessment does not assume that all women or all

men have the same needs, priorities and interests, and resists stereotyping women as solely a vulnerable group

Key Elements in Gender-Aware Early Recovery Planning

The results of the consultations with women and men and women’s organisations have informed recovery planning and design

Sex- and age-disaggregated data are analysed and used Proposed actions aim to reinforce sustainable, spontaneous

recovery activities of women and men There is clarity on the ways in which proposed projects will

directly benefit women, men, boys, and girls Proposed early recovery initiatives aim to facilitate and retain

female and male participation as appropriate

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