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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
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
Why gender?Gender gap in ‘first world’ disasters – lagging behind gender in development
Few people recognized difference in disasters then – during the IDNDR period
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
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)
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
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
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
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
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
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: [email protected]
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What Do We Do? Information sharing
e.g. GDN blog
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
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
Gender & Disaster Network www.gdnonline.org
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