Full Member
Kylah Forbes-Biggs
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Other Memberships/Affiliations
Gender and Disaster Network Africa Region
Degrees:
2017
Doctorate Social and Economic Sciences
Specializing in Gender and Disasters
2011
Master Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
2001
Undergraduate Social and Economic Sciences
Double Major International Relations and Public Administration
Publications resulting from Research
Refereed Article
Forbes-Genade, K. and D. van Niekerk. 2018. GIRRL Power! Participatory Action
Research for building girl-led community resilience in South Africa. Action Research
Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750318756492
Forbes-Genade, K. and D. van Niekerk. 2018. GIRRL Power! Participatory Action
Research for building girl-led community resilience in South Africa. Action Research
Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750318756492
Refereed Article
Forbes-Genade, K. and D. van Niekerk. 2017. The GIRRL Program: A Human Rights Based Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa, International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.001
Forbes-Genade, K. and D. van Niekerk. 2017. The GIRRL Program: A Human Rights Based Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa, International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.001
Refereed Article
Van Niekerk, D., Coetzee, C., Botha, D., Murphree, J.M., Fourie, K., Le Roux, T., Wentink, G.,
Kruger, L., Shoroma, L., Genade, K., Meyer, S., and E. Annandale. 2014. Planning and
Executing Scenario Based Simulation Exercises: Methodological Lessons, Homeland
Security & Emergency Management 12(1):193-210.
Van Niekerk, D., Coetzee, C., Botha, D., Murphree, J.M., Fourie, K., Le Roux, T., Wentink, G.,
Kruger, L., Shoroma, L., Genade, K., Meyer, S., and E. Annandale. 2014. Planning and
Executing Scenario Based Simulation Exercises: Methodological Lessons, Homeland
Security & Emergency Management 12(1):193-210.
Refereed Article
Forbes-Biggs, K. and Y. Maartens. 2011. Adolescent Girls at Risk: The GIRRL Program as a Capacity-Building Initiative in South Africa. Children, Youth and Environments 22(2): 234-248.
Forbes-Biggs, K. and Y. Maartens. 2011. Adolescent Girls at Risk: The GIRRL Program as a Capacity-Building Initiative in South Africa. Children, Youth and Environments 22(2): 234-248.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapter
Forbes-Biggs, K. (2020), The potential of men's organisations in reducing
disaster and climate risk: Applying a gender lens to Southern Africa. (In: Sawyer, M,
Jenkins, F and Downing, K eds. How gender can transform the social sciences:
Innovation and impact. Palgrave Macmillan.)
Forbes-Biggs, K. (2020), The potential of men's organisations in reducing
disaster and climate risk: Applying a gender lens to Southern Africa. (In: Sawyer, M,
Jenkins, F and Downing, K eds. How gender can transform the social sciences:
Innovation and impact. Palgrave Macmillan.)
Peer Reviewed Booked Chapter
Van Niekerk, D., Nemakonde, L., Kruger, L. and K. Genade. 2017. Community-based
Disaster Risk Management (In: Rodriguez, H., Trainor, J., Donner, W. and A. P. Guzman
eds. Handbook of Disaster Research. New York: Springer.)
Van Niekerk, D., Nemakonde, L., Kruger, L. and K. Genade. 2017. Community-based
Disaster Risk Management (In: Rodriguez, H., Trainor, J., Donner, W. and A. P. Guzman
eds. Handbook of Disaster Research. New York: Springer.)
Peer Reviewed Book Chapter
Forbes-Genade, K. 2016. Using a gendered lens to reduced disaster and climate risk in
Southern Africa: The potential leadership of men’s organisations (In: Enarson, E. and B.
Pease. eds. Men, Masculinities and Disasters, Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk
and Climate Change, Abingdon: Routledge).
Forbes-Genade, K. 2016. Using a gendered lens to reduced disaster and climate risk in
Southern Africa: The potential leadership of men’s organisations (In: Enarson, E. and B.
Pease. eds. Men, Masculinities and Disasters, Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk
and Climate Change, Abingdon: Routledge).
Book Chapter
Forbes-Genade, K. and C. Chenga. 2016. Factors contributing to vulnerability in rural
communities within rural Sub-Saharan Africa (In: Mulugeta, G. ed. Natural and Human Induced Hazards and Disasters in Africa, Johannesburg: African Institute of South Africa).
Forbes-Genade, K. and C. Chenga. 2016. Factors contributing to vulnerability in rural
communities within rural Sub-Saharan Africa (In: Mulugeta, G. ed. Natural and Human Induced Hazards and Disasters in Africa, Johannesburg: African Institute of South Africa).