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Gender
Addressing the gender implications of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy and practice, raising awareness of gendered vulnerabilities of both men and women, and promoting gender-sensitive approaches to DRR.
Call to include people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction plans
23 May 2013, PINA
'Disability has been recognized as an issue that has received far too little attention with the consequence of increasing exposure of people with disabilities and missing the opportunity to draw on their unique capacities'. Fiji’s Minister for Disaster Management, Inia Seruiratu has assured a review of national policies on disaster risk reduction will include the needs of women, children and people with disabilities...
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- 2nd climate change and population conference on Africa03-07 Jun 2013, Ghana (Accra)
- Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation online course10 Jun - 09 Sep 2013, Worldwide
- Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation short course01-05 Jul 2013, United Kingdom (Brighton)
- Post graduate diploma and certificate programme in disaster managementIDMVS; DU, Bangladesh (Dhaka)
- MA programme on sustainable urban governance and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- Disaster risk management: the case of earthquakesUNIGE, Switzerland (Geneva)
Working with the community: conducting participatory action research - a handbook for facilitators in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands2012, CRF; RCS Solomon Islands; RCS Vanuatu
Training curriculum on women leadership in disaster risk reduction2012, NARRI; NIRAPAD
- International Day for Disaster Reduction in Rwanda2012, MIDIMAR, Rwanda - gov
- Resilient women: women become change makers after 5 years of tsunami2010, GROOTS; SSP
- BBC World Debate: ‘Prevent or React’2009, BBC
External Online Resources
- America Latina Genera
- Dialogue on climate change adaptation for land and water managment
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- Gender and Disaster Network (GDN)
- gendercc - women for climate justice platform for information, knowledge and networking
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- Women and girls on the map
- Women preparing for disasters Bangladesh
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