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SIS PRINSIP POU PRAN KESYON POZISYON FANM AK GASON AN KONSIDERASYON NAN ALEMYE E REKONSTWIKSYON (Six Principles for Engendered Relief and Reconstruction in Creole). Translated by Kathy Lynn and Sebastien Raphael for the GDN. Click the title to download document in pdf.

Women working with Women for Equitable Relief & Sustainable Recovery in Haiti. (Updated) The Gender and Disaster Network urges all actors responding to the Haitian earthquake to adopt a gender-responsive approach that builds on women’s capacities and resources while reflecting the gender-specific needs of women and men, boys and girls. We offer these resources for planning and advocacy and a better understanding of the need for gender-aware approaches to disaster risk management. Download document.

Gender Note Series. Authored by Elaine Enarson for the GDN. November 2009.

Gender Note #2 Women, Gender and Disaster: Hazards & Hazard Mitigation

Gender Note #3 Women, Gender and Disaster: Men & Masculinities

Gender Note #4 Women, Gender and Disaster: Abilities and Disabilities

Gender Note #5 Women, Gender and Disaster Risk Communication

Gendering Disaster Risk Reduction A Working Glossary

Women, Gender and Disaster. Global Issues and Initiatives. Edited by Elaine Enarson and P G Dhar Chakrabarti. Sage Publications. Contributors to this volume examine gender within the context of disaster management. They argue for gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy towards mitigating post-disaster gender disparity and achieving disaster risk reduction. Highlighting that gender inequalities pervade all aspects of life including health, income, education, welfare, political voice and violence in public and domestic spheres, the collection emphasizes that women's knowledge capabilities and their role in community resource management are also frequently overlooked in post-disaster rehabilitation programmes. Available for purchase from Sage: http://www.sagepub.com/books.nav, keywords "gender disaster"

Climate Change and Gender Justice. Edited by Geraldine Terry with Caroline Sweetman. Published by Oxfam. Climate Change and Gender Justice considers how gender issues are entwined with people’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and how gender identities and roles may affect women’s and men’s perceptions of the changes. Includes case studies on how women and men in developing countries are experiencing climate change and describe their efforts to adapt their ways of making a living to ensure survival, often against extraordinary odds. Click the title to read the publication.

Asia-Pacific 'disasters' - Calling for a gendered approach in disaster risk reduction. Open letter from the GDN Steering Group. Governments must scale up efforts in working with local people at the grassroots level to develop disaster risk reduction plans that are effective, responsive, and gender-sensitive. Click the title to download the full text.

The Influence of caste, class and gender in surviving multiple disasters. A case study from Orissa, India. Nibedita Ray-Bennett. Environmental Hazards 8 (2009) 5-22. The findings of ths study suggest a complex interplay of caste, class and gender in surviving the multiple disasters including structural mutability under the purview of social organization. In doing so, women demonstrated their individual and collective agencies in order to meet their cultural and biological needs under severe crisis. (pdf, 231KB)

Feminists and Rights-based Perspectives: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Disaster Contexts. ARROWS for Change. Vol 14 No. 3. This issue highlights the importance of addressing SRHR of women, adolescents and people of diverse gender and sexual identities in disaster risk reduction, response and recovery. Ranjani K. Murthy serves as gues editor. Click the title to download the pdf, 380KB.

Gender Sensitive Disaster Management: A Toolkit by Chaman Pincha. Translated in Turksih (Toplumsal Cinsiyete Duyarlı Afet Yönetimi, Uyarlama ve Çeviri: Derya Keskin Demirer)

Participation of Women in Community-based Disaster Management Program. Chaman Pincha with support from Shakeb Nabi for CARE India. Click the title to download the pdf (1.6mb).

Lanzamiento de productos de gestion del conocimiento en Reduccion de desastres en Centroamérica. Tenemos el placer de anunciarle el lanzamiento vía on-line en nuestra Plataforma RedDesastres del Paquete de Publicaciones y Materiales producidos teniendo como escenario el istmo centroamericano, y que nos permite conocer algo más de cómo su gente va haciendo “desarrollo” a la par de impulsar estrategias de convivencia con su entorno, e idearse muchas y variadas maneras de mitigar y reducir sus riesgos y desastres. http://www.reddesastres.org/index.php // Announcing the online launch of the RedDesastres platform which includes publications and materials produced within the context of Central American region. These materials allow us to look into how its peoples are creating “development” while simultaneously promoting coexistence strategies in their environments, and to get inspired about the many diverse ways of mitigating and reducing risks and disasters. Visit the website: http://www.reddesastres.org/index.php

Gender in Crisis: An Anthropological Perspective on Internally-Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Initiatives in Sri Lanka. Butterfield, A. (2009) Thesis (MA). San Diego State University. Department of Anthropology. This study presents an ethnographic and literature-based review of two distinct gendered themes in Sri Lanka as it wrestles with multiple crises: gender role change in crisis and humanitarian gender mainstreaming in crisis. Click the title to download the document.

Launch of a new "Back on Track" website. Back on Track is an innovative programme designed to support and further international development work on education in emergencies and post-crisis transition countries. Visit the website: www.educationandtransition.org

The publications Gender Sensitive Disaster Management Toolkit (pdf, 9.4mb) and Indian Ocean Tsunami through the gender lens (pdf, 6.9mb) both by Chaman Pincha are now available in Tamil. Click the titles to download the documents.

Mary Fran Myers Award 2009 recipient: Chaman Pincha. Read about Chaman's work here.

Gender and Climate Change in Vietnam- A Desk Review. UNIFEM Viet Nam. 2009.

Women, Gender and the Hyogo Platform for Action. GDN Gender Notes 1. Elaine Enarson, 2009.

Six Principles for Engendered Relief and Reconstruction. pdf, 141kb.
Seis Principios para Transversalizar el Género en la Respuesta
y en la Reconstrucción. pdf, 147kb.
Les Six Principes pour une Résilience et une Reconstruction Collective. pdf, 124kb.

Oral Statement by the Gender and Disaster Network: Connect and Unite Today for a Fairer Tomorrow. Read by Dr Maureen Fordham at the 2nd Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. 18 June 2009, Geneva. Watch it in Youtube.

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.

 

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
GDN members share the latest information and resources on gender, drr and related issues through a mailing list hosted by Preventionweb. To subscribe to the LISTSERV, please register online: https://www.gdnonline.org/profile/register.php

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.