D4D | Designing for Disaster
Environmentally responsive app generates safer camp layouts for government- and NGO first- responders
Women and girls make up half of all displaced people, but only 4.5% of aid protects their rights.
The configuration of emergency shelter encampments compounds violence. The physical layout of housing, hygiene and service areas rarely include women’s actual needs for survival and safety. As a result, many women and girls never seek shelter or relief.
Designing for Disaster is an environmentally responsive AI-augmented mobile app that provides a digital blueprint for rapid emergency shelter deployment prioritizing the safety and hygiene needs of women and girls.
Utilizing the technology of land survey apps to measure and mark terrain, first responders can quickly deploy shelter encampments according to responsive blueprints that maximizes stakeholder safety.
In Darfur refugee camps, 82% of rape victims treated by Médecins Sans Frontières were attacked while conducting daily familial duties, such as fetching water.
Refugee women could generate and contribute $1.4 trillion to the annual global GDP.
Raiyan Kabir and Jeni Klugman
RefugeeWorks
50%
Refugees are women & girls
+100 million
People are forcibly displaced
1 in 5
Female refugees experience sexual violence
Current figures as of 12.2022 via World Bank, UN Refugee Agency, Women for Women International
