to do so it will identify the most salient gender issues in malta as well as shed light on the vulnerabilities generated by the complex interactions of gender with age disability and migration status in addition it will stress the importance of including women and women s rights activists in drr initiatives and decisionmaking identifying gaps and opportunities within existing political and social structures and presenting suggestions for gender mainstreaming in drr in malta this analysis hopes to inspire drr research and prevention work that is attuned to gender issues and at the same time embraces an intersectional perspective acknowledging that there cannot be resilience without gender equality