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Gender & Development: Post-Disaster Humanitarian Work

Volume 20, Number 2, July 2012

Understanding how disasters affect people differently depending on gender and other aspects of their identity  is a critical starting point for emergency response. So, too, is recognising and valuing the extent and worth of the contribution of women and girls to the survival of households and communities in the aftermath of disasters. The articles in this issue share experiences and learning from a wide range of post-disaster contexts, bear witness to the great strides that have been made in incorporating a gender perspective into disaster responses, and highlight the areas where more needs to be done to ensure that women's rights are supported, and gender equality promoted.

Women clearing the streets in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake

 

Women in Haiti clearing the streets after the 2010 earthquake.

Contents

The links below will take you to the abstract on the Oxfam Policy & Practice website where you can download the article for free.

Editorial

Introduction to post-disaster humanitarian work
Joanna Hoare, Ines Smyth and Caroline Sweetman 

Articles

Using sex and age disaggregated data to improve humanitarian response in emergencies
Priscilla Benelli, Dyan Mazurana and Peter Walker

Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker
Siobhán Foran, Aisling Swaine and Kate Burns

Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan
Shaheen Ashraf Shah

Women and the 2011 East Japan Disaster
Saito Fumie

Helping international non-government organisations (INGOs) to include a focus on gender-based violence during the emergency phase: lessons learned from Haiti 2010–2011
Sarah Jeanne Davoren

After the earthquake: gender inequality and transformation in post-disaster Haiti
Lynn Horton

Women's empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal
Rajesh Dhungel and Ram Nath Ojha

Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya
Wilson O. Ndenyele and Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen

The warias of Indonesia in disaster risk reduction: the case of the 2010 Mt Merapi eruption in Indonesia
Benigno Balgos, J.C. Gaillard and Kristinne Sanz 

Resources

Post-disaster Humanitarian Work Resources List
Compiled by Liz Cooke

Views, events, and debates
Edited by Liz Cooke

Book Reviews

Edited by Liz Cooke 

Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
reviewed by Jude Howell

Women and the Teaching Profession: Exploring the Feminisation Debate
reviewed by Kate Greany 

The Future of Feminism
reviewed by Fenella Porter

Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender
reviewed by Gwendolyn Beetham

Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh

reviewed by Azza Basarudin