Dr Katharine Vincent was in Windhoek this week, attending a SADC workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction. During the workshop she presented plans to integrate gender into SADC's Disaster Risk Reduction Strategic Plan and Plan of Action 2018-30. This will take place as part of a World Bank-funded project led by Cowater Sogema, in which Katharine is the team leader. The purpose of the presentation was to gain feedback from member state DRR focal points and regional stakeholders into the planned approach, and start to identify priorities and examples of good practice of gender-responsive disaster risk reduction.
