a resource of GDN

PAHO has joined forces with CEPREDENAC, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the ISDR to produce a four-part drama called "Tiempos de huracanes." The drama, which focuses on hurricanes and floods, presents segments on what can happen before, during and after these disasters. The story line contrasts the negative results of a lack of preparedness on the part of local communities with positive experiences. The drama serves as an educational tool about issues such as health, gender and migration in the disaster context. In Guatemala, they are considering adapting the script for the theatre. The program is available in Spanish only.

Related resource:

"Rough Season"

http://www.eird.org/eng/educacion/radionovela-caribe/radionovela-caribe-ing.htm

The Asia Foundation has consistently supported a wide range of efforts to improve conditions for Afghan women. Since 2002, the Foundation has focused on the special needs of women and girls to rebuild their lives, including the training of the first female journalists to be trained in Kabul for more than a decade, and the first-ever to be trained in digital media. The culmination of this training was the production of “Afghanistan Unveiled,” a documentary by the journalists, documenting the lives of Afghan women in the provinces in the past decade. The documentary focuses on women’s experience of both conflict and natural disasters (the five year drought).

For more information: http://www.asiafoundation.com/Locations/afghanistan.html

14 Power Point slides on gender emphasizing developed nations, prepared by Betty Hearn Morrow for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Higher Education Project college course A Social Vulnerability Approach to Disaster. Available throughFEMA: http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/socialvulappro.asp.

• Gender and Disasters Resource Book, Cheryl Anderson
• Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa, Rowena Hay
• Spanish: Radio soap opera as a gender balanced tool in raising awareness on disaster risk reduction at the community level, Margarita Villalobos excellent cartoon graphics
• “Women for Development” NGO National Survey for Seismic Protection UN Expert on Gender and Disasters, Armine Mikayelyan
• Creating a Culture of a Culture of Prevention Prevention, Madhavi Ariyabandu

The presentations are available as PDF files through ISDR:
http://www.unisdr.org/wcdr/thematic-sessions/cluster3.htm

Power Point presentation by Dr. Maria Onyango, Makeno, University, Kenya. The primary focus of this powerpoint presentation from the Second World Meterological Organization (WMO) Conference is risk reduction in the Greater Horn of Africa for floods and droughts, with a particular focus on early warning. It includes recommendations for engendering risk reduction through environmental management, appropriate technology, and other interventions.

Available through the WMO: http://www.wmo.ch/web/wmoh/
womendocs/agenda.doc

2002. 3 sided brochure. Developed for use in the community-based training package Working With Women at Risk: Practical Guidelines for Communities Assessing Disaster Risk. The brochure makes basic points about the increased risk of girls and women as well as their proactive efforts to reduce risk. It is written in a casual tone for use in community education projects and can readily be adapted to different contexts. Available through the GDN or as an appendix in the Working with Women at Risk project, also on-line through GDN:

http://www.gdnonline.org/resources/womenanddisasterbrochure.pdf

25 min. 2005. English. Video produced by Catholic Relief Services profiling the initiatives of grassroots women's self help groups in India, with sections on Disaster Management as welll as HIV/AIDS, health, education, and other related themes.

For more information:
Snigdha Chakraborty,
National Coordinator (Program Quality),
Catholic Relief Services,
India Program;
(+91-11-2648-7256. cell: 9350990829);
snigdhac11@rediffmail.com