A New Resource: Gender & Development: Special Issue On Post-disaster Humanitarian Work
Understanding how disasters affect people differently depending on gender and other aspects of their identity is a critical starting point for emergency response. So, too, is recognising and valuing the extent and worth of the contribution of women and girls to the survival of households and communities in the aftermath of disasters.
The articles in this issue of G&D, in which authors share experiences and learning from a wide range of post-disaster contexts, bear witness to the great strides that have been made in incorporating a gender perspective into disaster responses, and highlight the areas where more needs to be done to ensure that women's rights are supported, and gender equality promoted.
Contents
Editorial
Introduction to Post-disaster humanitarian work
Joanna Hoare, Ines Smyth and Caroline Sweetman
Articles
Using sex and age disaggregated data to improve humanitarian response in emergencies
Prisca Benelli, Dyan Mazurana and Peter Walker
Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the InterAgency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker
Siobhán Foran, Aisling Swaine and Kate Burns
Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan
Shaheen Ashraf Shah
Women and the 2011 East Japan Disaster
Fumie Saito
Helping international non-government organisations (INGOs) to include a focus on gender-based violence during the emergency phase: lessons learned from Haiti 2010–2011
Sarah Jeanne Davoren
After the earthquake: gender inequality and transformation in post-disaster Haiti
Lynn Horton
Women's empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal
Rajesh Dhungel and Ram Nath Ojha
Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya
Wilson O. Ndenyele & Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen
The warias of Indonesia in disaster risk reduction: the case of the 2010 Mt Merapi eruption in Indonesia
Benigno Balgos, J.C. Gaillard and Kristinne Sanz
Resources
Post-disaster humanitarian work resources list
Compiled by Liz Cooke
Views, events, and debates
Edited by Liz Cooke
Book reviews
Edited by Liz Cooke
Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
reviewed by Jude Howell
Women and the Teaching Profession: Exploring the Feminisation Debate
reviewed by Kate Greany
The Future of Feminism
reviewed by Fenella Porter
Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender
reviewed by Gwendolyn Beetham
Transnationalism Reversed: Women OrganizingAgainst Gendered Violence in Bangladesh
reviewed by Azza Basarudin
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