Demographically Palghar district is a tribal dominated district, geographically it is in coastal area and economically it serves nation through Bhabha Atomic Research Center and Tarapur Atomic Power Station. These circumstances made district highly vulnerable to disasters from natural and technological hazards. The disaster risk is high in the area require disaster risk reduction measures through lessening vulnerability of people and property, by risk sensitive management of land and the environment, improved preparedness, early warnings, mock drill, trainings for effective disaster risk management, etc. Training and mock drills are conducted by the district administration time to time. In recent times about 50 different types of training programmes have been conducted in the district however the participation of woman in the program found to be very low although woman are more vulnerable than man. The high vulnerability of this area and disregarded woman can be considered as a pinch of the research problem. The low participation of woman in training programmes can be due to many reasons like, male dominated social practices and related lack of confidence discipline of training and fear factors patterns of clothing and menstrual cycle.
In rural and especially tribal areas most women don't have the practice of expressing themselves or courage to speak up in public meetings/trainings. This leads women lacking knowledge and information and in higher numbers of women getting affected and killed in disasters compared to men. A sample of 100 woman participated to focus the research problem. The study objectives are to promote and increase woman's participation in disaster training programs. The study will also motivate woman for maximum contributions in disaster risk management.
Gender based disaster management Training, Disaster Risk Reduction, Women's participation in Disaster risk management, Women empowerment in disaster management training
