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The materials in this first section frame those to follow. Strong summary documents, pioneering writing in the field of gender and disaster, significant policy statements and conference papers and recommendations from a series of conferences provide an overview. We offer this broad conceptual foundation, so tragically illustrated by recent disastrous events, as one perspective on the need for gender analysis and gender-fair practices across all sectors and regions where people and their communities are threatened by catastrophic events or the slow grind of “small” disasters.
As women’s voices are so rarely heard we highlight them here with space as well for listening to men, in this case in the context of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Listening to women talking about how disasters affected them and how they responded is vital for practitioners, researchers and policy makers and an important point of connection between women around the world. Please consider uploading first-person narrative accounts available to you in any of the categories below or others that you may want to suggest.

Users are also referred to the sections on Training and on Communication where numerous short fact sheets or handouts featuring first person statements from women survivors and responders can be found.

In this section, users will find international material on:

• Fundamental Concepts And Perspectives
• Why Gender? Why Women? Lessons from the Field
• Personal Narratives
• Voices of Women and Men: Tsunami
• Action Points

Regional Table of Contents

International

• Environmental Management and the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: a Gender Perspective
• Making Risky Environments Safer: Women Building Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Communities
• Statements On Gender To The UN Commission For The Status Of Women (46th session)
• Statement of the Gender and Disaster Network prepared from the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe, Japan, 2005
• Gender matters: Talking points on gender equality and disaster risk reduction
• Some of Women's Stories
• Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction
• Understanding the Disaster-Development Continuum: Gender Analysis is the Essential Tool
• Women and Children First: Introducing a Gender Strategy Into Disaster Preparedness
• Regional Perspectives on Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction
• From women's needs to women's rights in disasters
• Gender issues in disaster response
• Women in Emergencies
• Women and Children: Keys to Prevention
• International Conference Recommendations 1994-2004
• Outcomes from the Symposium on Women in Emergencies and Disasters, Queensland AU
• Disasters: where does breastfeeding fit in?
• Prevention of Natural Disasters: An Examination of Water and Deforestation Challenges
• Promoting gender equality in disaster risk reduction: action recommendations from gender and disaster conferences
• Disproportionate impact of natural disasters on women
• Gender equality, environmental management and natural disaster mitigation
• Environmental management and disaster risk reduction: a gender perspective
• Women, disaster reduction and sustainable development.
• Honolulu gender and disaster workshop: Regional commentaries from participants

Asia/Asia Pacific

• Gender Sensitive Disaster Management and Mitigation
• Women and Drought
• Hameeda's Story - From Flood Risk to Flood Preparedness
• Gender Dimensions in Disaster Management: a Guide for South Asia
• Women's Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery
• Issues Facing Women and Girls
• Workshop on Gender and Disasters, Multan, Pakistan, 1996
• Village profiles: women's journey from the tsunami to the future
• First person accounts from tsunami women survivors turned leaders

Europe

• European Conference on Gender Approaches to Health in Emergency Situations: Women's Realities

Latin America and the Caribbean

• On the Margins and the Mainstream: Engendering the Disasters Agenda
• Central American Meeting on Women in Disasters
• Guidelines on the Role of Women in Disaster Management: Caribbean Region
• Hurricane Stan: A Personal Account of a National Disaster

Middle East

• Environmental management and natural disaster mitigation: A Middle Eastern gender perspective

North America

• Call to Action: Responding to Violence Against Women in Disaster
• Hard Lessons Learned in Manitoba: A Personal Account
• Disaster prone: reflections of a female permanent disaster volunteer
• Castillo's 9th Ward House Will Never Be Home Again
• Katrina Survivors Speak out: Video, Audio, Photo Highlights
• Women in Disasters: Exploring the Issues Conference, Vancouver BC, 1998
• Reaching Women and Children in Disasters