TTACLOBAN CITY, March 11 (PNA) – The National
Housing Authority (NHA) is pushing for gender-sensitivity in the resettlement
of families hit by super typhoon Yolanda.
NHA regional office estate management specialist
head Dorcas Secreto said their office had been consulting with relocation site
dwellers to come up with resettlement gender and development mainstreaming
manual.
“All aspects in building permanent housing units,
it should have a gender sensitivity approach in order to have an equitable
participation between man and women in all housing aspects from community
organization to the types of units being constructed,” Secreto said.
NHA plans to improve the relocation sites by
putting partitions to create more privacy at home.
“The focus of resettlement planning is at the
household level and to understand the failure of intra-household dynamics is
more likely to adversely affect women than men,” she added.
NHA will also assess housing projects before
approval of designs to ensure privacy of family members.
Nearly 7,000 families have been moved from danger
coastal communities to the northern part of the city. (PNA) RMA/SQM/Felgin C.
Silagan (OJT)
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