Donors are increasingly demanding gender analysis and protection mainstreaming (ADPC, OCHA and UN Women, 2016). In addition, the 2015 Sendai Framework calls for disaster risk management that strengthens people's resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change and natural disaster risks (UNDRR, 2015). It is in this environment that the French Red Cross 3 Oceans program wishes to develop its Protection, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) strategy, particularly in New Caledonia. This territory is marked by a strong colonial history between France and the Kanak population. This still has an impact on community relations and New Caledonian politics, making French humanitarian action, particularly the French Red Cross (FRC), more complex due to its special status. This thesis will study how the FRC and Kanak community organizers, with common interests but different perspectives, formulate their relationships and interests in relation to the PGI strategy, considering colonial history. It adopts a qualitative research method, with data collection, through semi structural interviews and analysis of focus groups. The data analysis uses categorization based on the main patterns and themes identified. The thesis demonstrates that the FRC must consider the Kanak codes in its programming, and PGI strategy, particularly through working with feminist local associations. It also states that the contextualization of the FRC actions regarding Kanak women’s role and needs is paramount, to adapt the actions, overcome and to avoid falling into a pattern of power relations rooted in colonial history.