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Reducing risk: participatory learning activities for disaster mitigation in Southern AfricaAstrid Von Kotze and Ailsa Holloway, 1996. 301pp
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Reducing risk: participatory learning activities for disaster mitigation in Southern AfricaAstrid Von Kotze and Ailsa Holloway, 1996. 301pp. Produced by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal. (Oxford, UK: Oxfam Publishing). Working from an adult education model, a highly gender-sensitive set of participatory learning activities for disaster mitigation was produced by two women researchers and activists for use in Southern Africa with support from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in southern Africa. Assessing women’s livelihood in disaster contexts is a core component of the training. Workshop participants are provided information about how gender relates to disaster risk, and also helped to recognize gender dynamics within the small work groups as they are being trained in risk management. The grassroots training model offers substantive discussion of the links between gender equality and disaster risk reduction. It includes a number of exercises in which women and men jointly analyze village life to identify local hazards, vulnerabilities, and coping strategies. Specific patterns in the local gender divisions of labor are determined. By identify and supporting economic resources controlled by women, the potential contribution of women’s work in disasters can be anticipated and their efforts supported. For example, women who grow indigenous food crops with nutritional, medical, and fodder value increase the economic resilience of their households.
Communication Tool Kit for Emergencies, Handbook on Behaviour Change Communication
2005. Produced by UNICEF’s Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu. Available through UNICEF ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal
The past experiences with natural disaster responses such as the recent tsunami, clearly indicate that it is critical that all programme communication, be that in health, hygiene, education or child protection efforts are based on evidence and are well planned, implemented and monitored to achieve greater results for women and children affected by natural disasters. The tool kit aims to assist UNICEF Programme staff, other UN agencies, and government and NGO partners to plan, implement, and monitor programme communication initiatives in emergency and disaster situations. The tool kits covers the areas of health, education, hygiene promotion, getting children back to school, promoting and ensuring child protection measures in emergency situations. The Tool Kit examines cultural and gender issues in behavioural communication and related planning principles, gender aspects of hygiene promoting in emergencies, and promoting safe motherhood and breastfeeding practises in emergencies. The Kit offers practical tools for message development, main actions, intervention levels and sample indicators for each area covered.
Women in Emergencies
1997. Department of Humanitarian Affairs DHA News Special Issue, 1997. Multiple short accounts from around the world debunking myths and stereotypes. See Table of Contents in section one of the Sourcebook [Gender and Disaster: Lessons from the FIeld.
For example, trainers might well use:
Community life and disaster reduction. Natalie Domeisen
Cyclones: The Days After, R. Kabir
Disaster management, women: an asset or liability?
D. Pastizzi Ferencic
The needs and potential of women in emergencies. Katarina Toll
Unsung Heroines: Women and Natural Disasters
Gender Matters, Information Bulletin No. 8, US Agency for International Development. 2000, 4 pp. Short paragraph-long descriptions of women and grassroots women's groups responding proactively to hurricane Mitch and other disasters makes this a useful discussion tool. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACL189.pdf
Gender and Development
As noted in the Case Studies section of the Sourcebook, this Oxfam journal has published several special issues relevant to women,gender and disaster. The entire issue could be used as a reading for trainings or college courses as each offers an analytic introduction, short case studies (or excerpts) from around the world based on accounts from field workers or researchers with a gender focus, and an excellent resource section:
Women and the Environment, G. Reardon, ed. Oxfam Focus on Gender 1 (1), 1993.
Women and Emergencies, B. Walker, ed. Oxfam Focus on Gender 2 (1), 1994.
Humanitarian Work. Gender and Development 9 (3), 2001.
Climate Change. Gender and Development 10 (2), 2002.
Stop Disasters #24
UN IDNDR 1995. Good training materials are included, for example in Expanding Women’s Participation In Disaster Prevention And Mitigation: Some Approaches From Latin America And The Caribbean, by Helena Molin Valdes, pp. 10-11.
All India Disaster Mitigation Institute Information Series
Among others, see English-language publications on Planning Vulnerability Reduction: Women Artisans of Kutch Desert, and Vulnerability of Women in South Asia, Conceptual Frameworks for Gender Analysis.
Series list: http://www.southasiadisasters.net/publi infosheet list.htm
Beyond The Veil: Women In Islamic National Societies
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