Gender and Disaster Network, the (GDN)

Mission

The Gender and Disaster Network is an online community of practice with a global membership committed to gendering disaster risk reduction. GDN works with women and men, girls and boys, regardless of sexual orientation, class or caste, race or ethnicity, and physical or mental ability. Our focus is on all forms of risk.

Disaster Reduction Goal

GDN works towards the attainment of gender equality and social justice in disaster risk reduction and development. GDN believes that these can be achieved by reducing the root causes of vulnerability; resisting gender stereotypes; working towards the empowerment of women and other marginalised groups; and ensuring their active participation in decision-making.

Policies and Programmes in DRR

-GDN foregrounds the gender-differentiated impacts of disasters on social groups whose vulnerabilities result from unequal socio-economic, cultural and political processes.

-GDN underlines the capacities and achievements of marginalised social groups, especially women, to act as agents of change and advocates for further opportunities to increase their involvement in actively formulating and implementing risk reduction policies and strategies at local, national and international levels.

-GDN fosters information sharing and resource building to advocate for a gendered perspective in disaster management policy and practice and in the broader development agenda.

-GDN provides a platform for networking and collaboration among different actors and stakeholders across disciplinary, geographic, organisational and cultural boundaries.

Websites

http://www.gdnonline.org
http://www.gdnonline.org/sourcebook.php