Gender

This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief programme managers working in the South Asia earthquake relief operation.

This resource pack contains guidelines for planning post-disaster management. Its content draws attention to multiple aspects such as: what points to consider in rebuilding after a disaster; using hazard, risk & vulnerability assessment, and capacity assessment in planning for rebuilding; engaging the community; paying attention to women’s and gender issues in responding after the Tsunami crisis; disability Sensitive Planning for rehabilitation/reconstruction; community early warning systems; and understanding concepts on hazards, disasters and vulnerability.

This brief summarizes the clear priorities for governments and others as an outcome of the emergency summit meeting held on 6 January 2005 in Jakarta. The meeting represented world governments’ unprecedented response to the tsunami that struck the

This report turns the spotlight on the vulnerable groups, examining how and why they face discrimination. It calls on communities, governments and agencies to work harder to identify the most vulnerable and work together to ensure that their specific

This manual is about how to protect children from sexual violence and sexual exploitation, specifically in disaster and emergency situations. It is not intended to be an academic, rather a practical guide that will be of use to people working directly in

SEEDS pamphlet series, number 22, 2005:

The projects described in this pamphlet have been selected because they have served not only to strengthen women’s productive roles but also to integrate women into various sectors of social and economic

This publication is a tool for field actors, with the primary purpose of enabling humanitarian actors and communities to plan, establish, and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral interventions to prevent and respond to secular violence during the

This handbook sets forth standards for the integration of gender issues from the outset of a new complex emergency or disaster, so that humanitarian services provided neither exacerbate nor inadvertently put people at risk; reach their target audience