ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how disaster-risk reduction (DRR) in general and its sub-discipline gender and disaster in particular can benefit from the human security and securitisation frameworks. It examines that DRR and gad can significantly benefit from the human security framework and provides an analytical tool to bring DRR, development, gender issues under one theoretical umbrella. The chapter presents the concept of human security emerged in the post-Cold War with its emphasis on peace and human development. It also discusses the human security and securitisation frameworks are then highly relevant because they represent not only the core principle of ensuring survival, meeting basic needs and safeguarding the human dignity of the most vulnerable groups in society. The Hyogo Framework mainstreamed gender perspective into all DRR activities. This is a significant leap, but at the same time it posits that this perspective is integrationist in nature where the gender issue is treated as an add-on which relates only to improved project efficiency.
