Disasters from a women's rights perspective
Gender Sensitive Disaster Management: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Social networks, power relationships, knowledge and skills, gender roles, health, wealth, and location, all affect risk and vulnerability to disasters and the capacity to respond to them.
Read more...Providing Gender Responsive Aid in Haiti
In Haiti, as is always true in the aftermath of a major disaster, in addition to the urgent need for what we traditionally consider the pillars of immediate aid–food, water, shelter, medical care–there are needs that are specific to women, particularly for pregnant women and mothers with new babies and the need to address the added vulnerability to violence that women face when government infrastructures are dysfunctional.
Read more...Gendering Disaster Risk Reduction - Key Resources
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.
Read more...Gender Equality in Disasters
Six Principles for Engendered Relief and Reconstruction
Read more...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...Women working with Women for Equitable Relief & Sustainable Recovery in Haiti.
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.
Read more...Gender Note #2
Women, Gender and Disaster: Hazards & Hazard Mitigation
Read more...Gender Note #3
Women, Gender & Disaster: Men & Masculinities
Read more...Gender Note #4
Women, Gender and Disaster: Abilities and Disabilities
Read more...Gender Note #5
Women, Gender and Disaster Risk Communication
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