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THE GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK

THE GENDER AND 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). Who Are We?

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THE GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK

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  1. THE GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK www.gdnonline.org

  2. Who Are We? • GDN – established 1997 • An online community of researchers and practitioners advocating for gendered disaster risk reduction (GDRR)

  3. 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

  4. Why gender? • Gender gap in ‘first world’ disasters – lagging behind gender in development • Few people recognized difference in disasters then – during the IDNDR period

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

  6. 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)

  7. 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)

  8. Latest GDN Statistics • 1,122 members from 84 countries • 324,581 unique visits so far this year

  9. 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

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

  11. 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

  12. What Do We Do? Information sharing • e.g. GDN blog

  13. 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

  14. Women and Girls on the Map https://womenandgirlsonthemap.crowdmap.com

  15. What Do We Do? Networking & collaboration e.g. with Plan International www.plan.org

  16. What Do We Do? Networking & collaboration • e.g. with GROOTS International www.groots.org • Huairou Commission www.huairou.org

  17. 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 SupriyaAkerkar 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

  18. 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 SupriyaAkerkar 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

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

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

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

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

  23. 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 Pacific-Oceania GDN LAC GDN Africa

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

  25. THE GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK www.gdnonline.org

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