Transcript Diapositive 1 - GDN - Gender and Disaster Network

THE
GENDER AND DISASTER
NETWORK
www.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
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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
Gender & Disaster Network
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Why gender?
 Women particularly invisible
 Slow recognition and then only as
homogeneous group of vulnerable,
passive victims
Gender & Disaster Network
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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
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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 Statistics
 1,122 members from 84 countries
 324,581 unique visits so far this year
Gender & Disaster Network
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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
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Gender & Disaster Network
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What Do We Do? Knowledge generation
e.g. Gender Note series, G&D Sourcebook
Gender & Disaster Network
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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:
[email protected]
Gender & Disaster Network
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What Do We Do?
Information sharing
 e.g. GDN blog
Gender & Disaster Network
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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
Gender & Disaster Network
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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
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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-resilientdevelopment |
http://content.undp.org/go/cmsservice/download/publication/?ver
sion=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/cmsservice/download/publication/?version=live&id=3221216
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)
Coming soon –
GDN Europe
GDN Canada
GDN North
America
The US
Gender &
Disaster
Resilience
Alliance
GDN PacificOceania
GDN LAC
GDN Africa
What do we want to do next?
New look GDN
- we need funding to help us realize the
new look
THE
GENDER AND DISASTER
NETWORK
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