The role of women in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts (CBDRR) is an area of limited academic research and continues to be a thorny issue for policy and practice. This research paper describes a comparative case study of participatory action research (PAR) in CBDRR conducted in one rural and one urban tole (neighbourhood) of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. PAR is not a method, rather it is a set of principles guiding research. The “Empowering Women through CBDRR” PAR was motivated by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal's (NSET) desire to learn how to effectively empower women in disaster risk reduction on a local level and to enhance resilience to everyday hazards and risks as well as earthquakes. The hazards identified by residents in rural Bhainse were the supply of drinking water and landslides while the supply of drinking water and earthquakes were the perceived hazards in urban Tajhya Tole. The small-scale mitigation activities chosen and implemented by the female led disaster risk management groups in partnership with the local authorities and NSET addressed everyday risks (fire) that were important to the community or were related to livelihood concerns (landslide and drainage pipe). While there is clear evidence of women's empowerment and capacity building, sustainability of initiatives is particularly dependent on the commitment of local authorities to incorporate the initiatives into local policies and actions. A gap remains between aspirations to practice empowerment of women and implementation. In many ways, ‘doing’ empowerment remains problematic in CBDRR.

妇女在基于社区的减少灾害风险工作中的作用是一个学术研究有限的领域，仍然是政策和实践中一个棘手的问题。本研究论文描述了在尼泊尔加德满都谷地的一个农村和一个城市地区（社区）进行的CBDRR参与性行动研究（PAR）的比较案例研究。PAR不是方法，而是指导研究的一组原则。尼泊尔国家地震技术学会（NSET）希望通过“通过CBDRR赋予妇女权力” PAR来学习如何在地方一级有效地增强妇女在减少灾害风险中的能力，以及增强对日常灾害和风险的抵御能力，以及地震。Bhainse农村地区居民发现的危害是饮用水和滑坡的供应，而饮用水和地震的供应是塔吉亚托勒市区的已知危害。由女性领导的灾害风险管理小组与地方当局和NSET合作选择和实施的小规模减灾活动，解决了对社区重要或与民生问题有关的日常风险（火灾）（滑坡和排水管）。尽管有明确的证据表明可以增强妇女的权能和进行能力建设，但举措的可持续性尤其取决于地方当局将这些举措纳入地方政策和行动的承诺。增强妇女权能的愿望与执行之间仍然存在差距。很多方面，