Proceedings of the NGO Roundtable at the Global Platform. 18 June, 16.30-18.30. Organised by the Global Network of CSOs for DRR, Gender and Disaster Network, GROOTS and SEEDS. To be uploaded.

Grassroots women share Views from the Frontline: Evaluating Local Implementation of the HFA in India. Disaster Watch shares some reflections and initial findings from the survey.

"When Children’s Worlds are Turned Upside Down…” This UNICEF video is a dynamic animation highlighting key advocacy messages on education in emergencies. Visit this link to find some practical actions to make a difference. http://www.unicef.org/devpro/index.html

Indigenous People's Global Summit on Climate Change. Read the Anchorage Declaration in the website and view the webcasts of the sessions.

Gender Aspects of Natural Disasters. By Rebecca Pearl and Irene Dankelman. Climate Change is increasingly recognized as a major human security issue that poses serious global threats. Read more

Placing Climate Change within Disaster Risk Reduction. By Ilan Kelman and Gaillard J.C. Disaster Advances Vol 1(3) July 2008. Climate change policy and action miss out on the long experience from dealing with disasters including climate-related disasters. Read more

Social Vulnerability to Disasters (2009). Edited by Brenda Phillips, Deborah Thomas, Alice Fothergill and Lynn Blinn-Pike. Download flyer. Available August 2009.

International women's day and the GDN blog. The GDN launches its own blog for members.

Empowering women against disasters. A short advocacy video on empowering women in disaster risk reduction from UNISDR, 2009.

Katrina and the women of New Orleans. The ten chapters of the report focus on the pre-storm vulnerability and post-storm resilience of New Orleans women, and tackle the dearth of qualitative data specific to women to report on housing, employment and earnings, women’s physical and mental health, and domestic violence. Click the title to download report from the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University.

Ley de Gestión Integral de Riesgos Socionaturales y Tecnológicos (Law on the Comprehensive Management of Socionatural and Technological Risks)

Pakistan: Climate Change and the Gender Implications. Briefing paper by Maira Zahur for the Gendercc side event in Poznan, Poland, December 2008.

Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief. Call for contributions. SAGE Publications. Please click link for the submission guidelines. Deadline for submission: July 1, 2009.

Gender and Climate Change in Poznan

Maira Zahur and Rosemary Mbone report on the UNFCCC COP-14 held from 1 to 12 December 2008 in Poznan, Poland.

The GDN Website

The GDN website is a work in progress. Thanks to support from USAID/OFDA, UN ISDR Prevention Web, and Northumbria University, School of Applied Sciences we are expanding the GDN and making it more dynamic. We have many plans, some of which can be enacted now, others will have to wait for further sponsorship. Please visit In the Pipeline to see a description of some of the ideas we have for the future.

What We Do

The Gender and Disaster Sourcebook
The GDN hosts and maintains the Gender and Disaster and Disaster Sourcebook, a one-stop user-friendly electronic guide to help answer the question: "What is the link between gender equality and disaster risk?"

The Mary Fran Myers Award
The Mary Fran Myers Award was so-named in order to recognize her sustained efforts to launch a worldwide network among disaster professionals, for advancing women’s careers and for promoting research on gender issues in disaster research in emergency management and higher education.

The GDN Community Mailing List
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The GDN remains a space populated by its members and welcomes contributions of relevant materials/events/announcements for publication in the website and suggestions to improve the Network.

Get Involved

GDN is seeking partners and supporters to further its advocacy in gendering disaster risk reduction. Please email us at: gdngdnonline.org to explore potential collaborations.

Who are we?

The Gender and Disaster Network is an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts. We are the first web presence to advocate for gender mainstreaming in disaster risk reduction using the World Wide Web. Read more