the gender and disaster network

THE GENDER AND

DISASTER NETWORKwww.gdnonline.org

Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org

Who Are We? GDN –

established 1997

An online community of researchers and practitioners advocating for gendered disaster risk reduction (GDRR)

Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org

Who Are We?An international network working with women and men, girls and boys, regardless of class or caste, race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability

A repository of freely available materials

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Why gender?Gender gap in ‘first world’ disasters – lagging behind gender in development

Few people recognized difference in disasters then – during the IDNDR period

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Why gender?Women particularly invisible Slow recognition and then only as homogeneous group of vulnerable, passive victims

Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org

Our Message Women are not passive victims in disaster

events but active agents of change A gender analysis must always be

contextualized

A woman taking the lead in emergency response (Red Cross Bangladesh)

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Our Message Engage with men as agents of

change, rather than barriers to change

Male gender activists in the conflict-prone Mt. Elgon district, Kenya (M. Gunatilleke)

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Latest GDN Statistics1,122 members from 84 countries

324,581 unique visits so far this year

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What Do We Do?

We focus on all forms of disasters: ‘natural,’ biological, technological and social disasters, and climate change

We seek to embed gender and development within disaster work and to embed gendered disaster risk reduction into development work

Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org

What Do We Do? Knowledge generation e.g. Gender Note series, G&D Sourcebook

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What Do We Do? Information sharing e.g. GDN mailing list https://www.gdnonline.org/profile/register.php

Re: Assessing Haitian women's situation

Greetings. It is important that as you state, the recovery initiative is informed by Haitians and those with deep knowledge of Haiti. Haiti has long been a laboratory of failed development and social engineering experiments that have benefitted outsiders more than Haitians.

To post a message to this group, please write to: gdnet-l@groups.preventionweb.net

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What Do We Do? Information sharing

e.g. GDN blog

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What Do We Do? Networking & collaboration e.g. with women’s groups working on climate change or poverty reduction; with UNDP to design G&D training materials

Women and Girls on the Map

https://womenandgirlsonthemap.crowdmap.com

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What Do We Do? Networking & collaboration e.g. with Plan International

www.plan.org

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What Do We Do? Networking & collaboration e.g. with GROOTS International

www.groots.org Huairou Commission

www.huairou.org

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What Do We Do? Networking & collaboration GROOTS International/ Hauirou Commission

- grassroots women’s initiatives & resources

Leading Resilient Development: Grassroots Women’s Priorities,

Practices and Innovations Maureen Fordham and Suranjana Gupta with Supriya Akerkar and

Manuela Scharf 2011 New York: United Nations

Development Programme and GROOTS International

http://huairou.org/leading-resilient-development

| http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/download/publication/?version=live&id=3221216

GROOTS International/ Hauirou Commission - grassroots women’s initiatives & resources

Leading Resilient Development: Grassroots Women’s Priorities, Practices and Innovations by Maureen Fordham and Suranjana Gupta with Supriya Akerkar and

Manuela Scharf 2011 New York: United Nations Development Programme and GROOTS International

http://huairou.org/leading-resilient-development | http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/download/publication/?version=live&id=3221216

GROOTS International www.groots.org

Promote practitioner-policy interface between community leaders and local authorities, national governments and other donors and policy makers

Facilitate community-led actions that demonstrate grassroots women and community capacities to undertake public roles in pro-poor resilience. 

Convene grassroots leaders and community experts in regional and national forums to share practices, lessons and identify advocacy priorities.

Create products that communicate lessons, insights and advocacy messages of the Community Practitioners’ Platform

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What do we want to do next? (http://www.gdnonline.org/future_devt.php)

Set up Regional Hubs in all the world regions (to include all levels from the grassroots to the global and everything in between)

The US Gender & Disaster

Resilience Alliance

GDN Canada

GDN Pacific-Oceania

GDN Africa

Coming soon – GDN Europe

GDN LAC

GDN North America

What do we want to do next?New look GDN- we need funding to help us realize the new look

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DISASTER NETWORKwww.gdnonline.org