1. THE GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK

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. A woman taking the lead in emergency response (Red Cross Bangladesh)
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. Engage with men as agents of change, rather than barriers to change
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
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
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.
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12. What Do We Do? Information sharing
e.g. GDN blog

13. What Do We Do. Networking & collaboration e. g
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

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

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

21. 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 |

22. GROOTS International www.groots.org
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 |
GROOTS International

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

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

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

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

28. 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

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

30. THE GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK