Learning from women's landslide songs in Bududa and Bunambutye: enhancing a holistic landslide mitigation in Uganda.

This paper draws on Bududa and Bunambutye as case studies to investigate how the songs women sing after the occurrence of landslides and the subsequent resettlement of survivors offer significant knowledge that can be harnessed by authorities to mitigate these disasters in Uganda. I specifically examine the lyrics of two women's songs and discuss how they contain valuable information that can offer psycho-social support to victims, besides articulating how government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can reconstruct livelihoods destroyed by this catastrophe. I argue that by examining the texts of women's landslide songs composed and performed during the aftermath of landslides, one can acquire substantial knowledge about the gendered mitigation of landslides. As such, the government and NGOs need to take into consideration the gender perspective if they seek to provide a holistic approach to landslide mitigation and internally displaced people- migrants in Uganda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]