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This page contains key resources on gender and disaster risk reduction translated in several languages to benefit a wider audience. Visit the Gender and Disaster Sourcebook for a more comprehensive list (2005 and earlier).

Gender Sensitive Disaster Management: A Toolkit for Practitioners. This Toolkit authored by Chaman Pincha is the outcome of a research study undertaken to understand gender mainstreaming strategies used by NGOs and the Government in the context of their responses to and management of the Tsunami aftermath in Tamil Nadu. The field outcomes were analyzed through a gender perspective to understand the differential impact of disasters and coping strategies on women/girls, men/boys, and other marginalized groups, including Aravanis. Download the toolkit here or from Think Beyond Boundaries website.

Training Materials for Gender Mainstreaming in Disaster Risk Reduction
This set of materials was designed and collated by Maureen Fordham (with help from colleagues in UNDP, UNISDR, Oxfam, AIDMI) for a Training of Trainers for UNDP. It was first delivered in Colombo, Sri Lanka in December 2007. It is currently being revised and will be delivered again for UNDP in Nepal in December 2008. Users are invited to take whatever individual elements seem useful to them, bearing in mind it was developed for a specific purpose and context. Please forward to GDN adaptations, other examples, case studies, tools and resources so that we can continue to build this Gendered Disaster Risk Reduction (GDRR) resource.

FACILITATOR MATERIALS

 

Title

Word document

Related Powerpoint

00 Introductory Notes

123KB

 

01 Key Gender Concepts

763KB

71KB

02 Applied Policy

342KB

5.0KB

03 DRR

123KB

363KB

04 Applied GDRR

1.9MB

1.7MB

05 Finding Common Ground

1.9MB

286KB

 

PARTICIPANTS' MATERIALS
(Contains the same material as the Facilitator Materials (except for a few notes/instructions for Facilitators) but is handed out in a staged process.

 

Title

Folder Materials

(to be handed out at the start)
The Present and the Future Finding common ground

Handouts

(to be distributed after relevant activities)
The Present and the Future Finding common ground

01 Key Gender Concepts

533KB

199KB

02 Applied Policy

85KB

274KB

03 DRR

81KB

69KB

04 Applied GDRR

359KB

1.6MB

05 Finding Common Ground

463KB

1.5MB

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Position Paper, UNFCCC COP 13, Gender cc, GDN, and other women's organisations. Bali, Indonesia, December 2007. PDF file (167KB)

Highlighting the needs and capacities of women and girls, men and boys in disaster risk reduction. GDN Oral Statement at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, First Session. Geneva, Switzerland. June 2007. PDF file (35KB) Hard Lessons Learned word document

Gender Equality in Disasters: Six Principles for Engendered Relief and Reconstruction. Gender and Disaster Network.Gender Equality in Disasters PDF file (53KB) Hard Lessons Learned word document (54KB)

Hard Lessons Learned: Gender Notes for Tsunami Responders. Elaine Enarson, Gender and Disaster Network. PDF file (53KB) Hard Lessons Learned word document (54KB)

WOMEN, DISASTER, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Planning Guidelines for Programs, Coalitions, and Disaster Practitioners. Elaine Enarson. Planning Guidelines Women, Disaster, and Domestic Violence word document (48KB)

Issues Facing Women after Disasters. Elaine Enarson. Issues facing women after Disasters word document (25KB)

UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: 82 Translations downloadable from PeaceWomen's website.

PDF file Working with Women at Risk: Practical Guidelines for Assessing Local Disaster Risk.This is a workbook for training community women to conduct hazard assessments and plan mitigation for their local neighborhoods. The model was developed and tested in communities in the Dominican Republic,  El Salvador, St. Lucia and Dominica. Elaine Enarson with Lourdes Meyreles, Marta González, Betty Hearn Morrow, Audrey Mullings, and Judith Soares. International Hurricane Center, Florida International University, June 2003. English (1.0MB) español (643KB)

We need volunteers to help us translate some of our key resources, if interested please email us: gdn@gdnonline.org.

Knowledgebase Links

Click on the Links below to access GDN Resources

G&D Sourcebook Annotated bibliography of gender and disaster resources until 2005.

Recently added materials

from 2006 to date.

Why women? Why gender? Key resources on gender equality in disaster risk reduction

Archive of GDN newsletters

Includes published and unpublished reports, papers, and conference proceedings

Guidelines, manuals and checklists

Regional or country-specific case studies/research on gender and disaster

Contains materials on gender and DRR in other languages (Spanish, Tamil, Japanese, Swahili, etc)

Relevant external sites, posters, powerpoint presentations on gender and disaster.