African Risk Capacity
Guinea Bissau Gender Analysis Validation Workshop
Guinea-Bissau is an ARC Member State since 29 January 2016 but does not have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to benefit in full of ARC’s Disaster Risk Management & Financing services and capacity building programme. To date the country does not have a National Disaster Risk Management and Financing Strategy and is highly vulnerable to climate related risks and disease outbreaks with increasing occurrence of drought and heat stress, flooding and waterlogging, and zoonotic diseases.
Through this project, ARC has commissioned Gender, Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Specialists in each country to conduct an in-depth gender analysis of i. the health sector from the perspective of disease outbreaks and ii. the interlinked disaster risk management and financing sector. The gender analysis aims to identify gaps and challenges and propose recommendations for policies, strategies, and activities to ensure a gender-responsive and transformational disaster risk management sector.
The ARC O&E and Gender teams supported by the Guinea Bissau Gender Consultant conducted a technicalmission in-Bissau City with the following objectives :
- To hold the validation workshop of the gender analysis conducted in the country at subnational level and across sectors from the perspectives of DRM and O&E; and to plan the next activities, given the specific political context of the country. ARC has convened key government stakeholders and partners for the presentation and validation of the gender analysis and the resultant Gender Action Plan.
- To plan the subsequent activities of the ARC-BMGF project, namely, the training of trainers and the training of health emergency specialists.
- To meet with the WFP Country Office in Guinea-Bissau to discuss ARC engagement given the political situation after dismissal of the National Parliament and to discuss potential areas of mutual collaboration.
