Gender and Disaster Network, the

GDN
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Networks and Others

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.

DRR activities
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

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Publication
Ensuring Haitian women’s participation and leadership in all stages of national relief and reconstruction
This report aims to scale-up women’s participation in recovery and reconstruction of Haiti and asserts that gender equality principles must guide all aspects of disaster mitigation, response and reconstruction. It is a response to Haiti’s National Plan of Action, the blueprint guiding reconstruction efforts and resource allocation, based on a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), resulting from a two month process led by the Government of Haiti and involving more than 250 people from the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank, but failing to address gender dimensions of Haiti’s proposed strategies for reconstructing macroeconomic, social, environmental policies, as well as infrastructure and governance.

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Voluntary Commitments

The organization has no registered commitments.

The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

Contact information

http://gdnonline.org/
[email protected]
+62-541 732 625
Fax:
+62-541 732 625