Project description
Rethinking gender in anticipatory humanitarian action
Forecast-based humanitarian action saves lives by providing aid before disasters strike. As these anticipatory strategies expand, it is important to integrate gender dynamics to address the unique vulnerabilities women and girls face due to deep-seated inequalities. Ignoring these realities undermines effective crisis prevention. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the GenACT project investigates whether current designs reflect these critical gender-based aspects of resilience. Through multisite qualitative research and participatory workshops, the project focuses on women’s experiences. The finding will ultimately improve humanitarian response, helping stakeholders design more equitable, context-sensitive strategies that protect everyone effectively. Overall, the project’s goal is to transform how we prepare for, anticipate and manage future global humanitarian challenges.
Objective
Anticipatory action (AA) refers to a set of forecast-based humanitarian measures designed to mitigate the impacts of crises before they fully materialize. Over the past decade, AA has gained significant interest among humanitarian actors and has been increasingly promoted as a more dignified and cost-effective alternative to traditional emergency response. Despite its potential, recent research shows persistent challenges, including reliance on technical-scientific frameworks that may not reflect local realities, unreliable data, algorithmic biases, and existing conflicts which complicate interventions. These issues can reinforce structural inequalities and limit the effectiveness of AA interventions.
While recent research has provided significant insights, there remains a gap in understanding how AA accounts for gender-specific vulnerabilities, risks, and resilience. This study addresses this gap with three objectives: to critically analyze how AA constitutes gendered understandings of vulnerability, risk, and resilience; to foreground women’s perspectives on what makes them vulnerable, at risk, and resilient; and to inform the design of AA strategies that are contextually grounded and responsive to affected women’s lived experiences.
The project employs a multi-sited and qualitative design. It combines participatory workshops with women in selected intervention sites to facilitate articulation of embodied experiences often overlooked in dominant discourses. The expected outcomes of this research include two peer-reviewed academic publications, one podcast, one short video, one international conference presentation, and one webinar with stakeholders.
This project aims to produce innovative research while improving the researcher’s career prospects in both academic and non-academic sectors through teaching experience, open-access publishing, training in conflict research, and the development of other skills and networks relevant to both academia and policy.
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3062 PA Rotterdam
Netherlands
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