Gender-Responsive Flood Relief Checklist (For CSOs & Frontline Workers)

Background

This Gender-Responsive Flood Relief Checklist has been developed as a practical tool for civil society organizations (CSOs) and frontline workers responding to the ongoing floods in Pakistan. It highlights the immediate, short-term, and medium-term needs of women, adolescent girls, elderly women, women with disabilities, transgender persons, and women-headed households in disaster contexts. 

This checklist builds on our ongoing work with the climate crisis–affected communities in Pakistan. It draws from our multiple study drives, including research that we conducted in climate-affected regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in 2024, and is further informed by our extensive consultations with grassroots CSOs, adolescent girls, women, and transgender persons in the aftermath of the devastating 2022 floods. 

By combining these local insights with global humanitarian guidelines (IASC, Sphere Standards, UNFPA MISP), this resource reflects not only international best practices but also the realities, voices, and lived experiences of those on the frontlines of climate disasters in Pakistan.