Conflict and emergencies

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Sparks of hope: grassroots women organise self help efforts to restore communities after the Haiti disaster: 2010; Six months after the January 12th earthquake in Haiti, We were present in the tent camps in Port au Prince and Leogane to listen to women in affected communities, on their evaluation of their daily li...
Forgotten peace builders: S. Ortoleva / 2010; Women worldwide are working to end political exclusion. More must be done to ensure that ALL women participate in building the rule of law, strengthening democracy and have a voice in decision making ...
Gender and disaster risk reduction: a training pack: M. C. Ciampi / Oxfam, 2011; Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resour...
Women's views from the frontline: Huairou Commission, 2012; The Huairou Commission initiated the action-research ‘Women’s Views from the Frontline’ to complement ‘Views from the Frontline’ to ensure that the voices of grassroots w...
Leading resilient development - grassroots practices & innovations: United Nations Development Programme , 2011; This publication—firmly grounded in the research and practices of its contributors— is a practical source document of ideas for readers studying and working on resilience issues. In presenting a set o...
Women, gender and the hyogo framework for action: Gender and Disaster Network , 2012; Gender is a cross-cutting concern requiring attention throughout the planning, implementation and evaluation phases of the activities adopted to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action. Toward this e...
An absolute must: gender-aware responses to natural disasters: AWID News, 2010; Hurricane Katrina, the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and the 2005 Asia tsunami in have all been stark reminders of the fact that natural disasters – like human-made ones – have a gendered imp...
Gender mainstreaming in emergency management: facilitator notes: E. Enarson / 2012; This manual supports a half- day workshop, but is easily adapted to shorter or longer periods. It can also be used as a self-study guide. It is designed to be highly participatory, with a range of sug...
Militarized masculinity in peacekeeping operations: an obstacle to gender mainstreaming: H. Lopes / Peacebuild, 2012; This background paper has been produced for a workshop on “Civil society views on next generation peacebuilding and conflict prevention policy and programming issues and responses”, convened by Peaceb...
The other side of gender: including masculinity concerns in conflict and peacebuilding: N. Sudhakar / United States Institute of Peace , 2011; • Gender is often used synonymously with the study of women. This narrow approach overlooks the relational quality of gender and fails to include masculinity issues in analysis and research, which can...