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Although women are considered the most vulnerable group in the society; but very little attention has been made to take into consideration the issue of gender sensitivity during the phase of response and recovery in both natural and manmade disaster. In Pakistan, a very limited number of organizations are working to address the issue gender based Violence in disaster response and recovery. The goal of this paper is to synthesize and review the issue of disaster and gender mainstreaming. This paper highlight the gap areas in terms of disaster preparedness, response and recovery; and also critically analyzes the importance of the mainstreaming the element of gender in the phase of disaster response and recovery overall in general and specific in the context of Pakistan. Recommendations and suggestions of the paper can be used to design and implement comprehensive response and recovery plan by mainstreaming the element of gender sensitivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we contemplate a comparison of results between constant and variable fluid properties while considering magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow and heat transfer for steady, two dimensional and laminar viscous fluid over a nonlinearly stretching sheet. The governing mathematical model for the underlying problem is drafted in its most general setup, i.e. we consider the the representative partial differential equations(PDEs) for viscous compressible fluid. Similarity transformation is exercised to transform governing nonlinear PDEs into a nonlinear ODEs. The set of two coupled ODEs are solved numerically by shooting technique and bvp4c (builtin MATLAB solver). Besides, we also present and execute a new numerical method for solving coupled nonlinear ODEs, the Simplified Finite Difference Method (SFDM). When comparing with bvp4c and shooting technique, the efficiency of SFDM for the above system has also been shown. Various governing parameters and their effect on temperature and velocity profiles are studied in detail. We have shown that there is a significant difference of results when its comparison is drawn between for constant and varying fluid properties. Skin friction coefficient shows increment in its values while rate of heat transfer shows decrement for variable viscosity when compared with constant viscosity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]