Huairou
Commission in Haiti: Global Expert Team on Recovery Lands in Haiti
The Huairou Commission member networks pledged their support to Haitian
women. We said we would invest in grassroots women's public roles as active
agents and problem solvers in the recovery and reconstruction process
to ensure their sustained participation in long term community development.
Toward that end, the Huairou Commission and United Methodist Church- Women's
Division sent our colleague Rachel Nadelman to undertake a rapid needs
assessment meeting, with the support of Stephania Louis, with 400 women
from 38 grassroots groups to find out their current conditions, their
priorities for reconstruction and the recovery
efforts of women's organizations.
Haitian Led Reconstruction & Development:Gender and Climate change
Ad-hoc Haiti advocacy coalition. March 29, 2010
A compilation of recommendation documents from several Haitian civil society and diaspora conferences,organizations and coalitions.
http://ajws.org/assets/uploaded_documents/haitian_led_reconstruction_and_development.pdf
Women
in Haiti after the January 12, 2010 Earthquake
Huairou Commission, American Jewish World World Service,
INURED and United Methodist Women
An assessment of women’s current conditions, their priori-ties for
reconstruction, the recovery efforts of women’s or-ganizations,
and identification of potential grassroots partners.
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/news/v.php?id=12805&a=email
"Resilient Women" (7
min)
Documentary film on how women become change makers after 5 years
of Tsunami in Tamilnadu, India
This
documentary film explores how imaginative, meaningful and long-term interventions
can change the lives of women and community in disaster affected areas.
The film follows the journey of women to rebuild their habitats and livelihoods
in the five years post tsunami in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam, two of the
worst affected districts in Tamilnadu (India). It showcases how these
resilient women overcame their socio-economic and physical vulnerabilities
to contribute to the overall development of their communities and become
better prepared for any future disaster.
Swayam Shikshan Prayog | GROOTS International. 2010
http://preventionweb.net/english/professional/multimedia/v.php?id=14539
The international Commission on Climate Change and Development was launched in late 2007 by the Swedish government. The Commission examined adaptation to climate change and its links with development and disaster risk reduction and was asked to issue policy recommendations on how the resilience of vulnerable communities and countries can be strengthened through official development assistance (ODA), on appropriate institutional and financial architecture, and on the mobilization of new financial resources.
http://www.ccdcommission.org/Filer/report/CCD_REPORT.pdf
Gender
Mainstreaming: Training Module for Emergency Planners
Elaine Enarson
Women and Health Care Reform
http://www.gdnonline.org/resources/GEM_MainFINAL.pdf
US Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance
http://usgdra.org/
Heinrich Böll Foundation
This report focuses on the Namibian case study. Due to the fact that climate change and gender has strong links to poverty, and that the majority of rural poor are women engaged primarily in subsistence agriculture, the research primarily examined rural communities of Namibia.
Gender
and Climate change: Botswana Case Study 2010
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The general objective of this report was to analyse differentiated
impacts of climate change and climate variability. Furthermore, it was
to examine the gendered dimension of climate change, its impacts and women
and men’s responses, with the aim to develop and inform around gender
sensitive mitigation and adaptation policies.
Gender
and Climate change: Mozambique Case Study
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The main
results of this study reveal that women and men are differentially impacted
by climate
changes due to the current power relations and their differentiated roles
in these communities.
Women have access to but not control over natural resources and other
property rights. Additionally, women do most of the reproductive and part
of the productive work, while men are only responsible for productive
work.
http://www.boell.org.za/downloads/Mozambique.pdf
Gender
and Climate change: South Africa Study
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Given that
the men and women in both study areas are poverty stricken with dependency
on agriculture and natural resource for their livelihoods, climate change
poses a risk for them. Gender differentiated impacts of climate variability
were manifested in the unequal distribution of roles and responsibilities
of men and women in both study areas.
http://www.boell.org.za/downloads/GCC_south_africa.pdf
This repot seeks to highlight innovations that can address the pressing agricultural challenges facing the world. These include innovations that will reduce hunger, improve environmental and agricultural sustainability, improve the lives of women and girls, and be scalable and economically feasible for both farmers and the donor/investment community.
http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/SOW11%20Issues%20Paper_Full%20Version_Final.pdf
The World Bank 2009
Within the context of the global Framework, this document identifies the climate challenges in South Asia. It outlines the broad parameters of a response that is consistent with the development priorities of the region. The main aim is to help South Asian countries begin a process that would build climate-resilient economies that grow along a low-carbon trajectory.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/Publications/448813-1231439344179/5726136-1259944769176/SAR_Climate_Change_Full_Report_November_2009.pdf
International Institute for Sustainable Development; UNEP; and UNitar 2009
Supported by examples and exercises, the module describes the process for addressing climate change in the context of other development priorities and ecosystems to help decision-makers move towards more sustainable development pathways and ecosystem resilience.
http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2010/iea_training_vol_2_via.pdf
Background Paper to the 2010 World Development Report
The World Bank 2010
This paper focuses on countries’ ability to absorb risks within its own limits, or vice versa the need for transferring risks more globally by implementing novel risk sharing mechanisms. Based on an estimate of country-wide risk for the 70+ cfountries most exposed to weather extremes, the report assess countries’ current financial vulnerability to climate extremes, which we operationalize as the public sector’s ability to pay for relief to the affected population and support the reconstruction of affected public sector assets such as infrastructure.
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/12998_WPS5232.pdf
Climate Change and Health: A Lens to Refocus on the Needs of the Poor
Commonwealth
Secretariat Discussion paper No.4, 2009
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/13566_13566DP4withlinks1.pdf
Training Manual
CBDRTM Training and Learning Circle, Philippines The training manual draws from and acknowledges the use of the Gender and Development materials of the National Commission on the Role of the Filipino Women (now the Philippine Commission on Women) and the Department of Interior and Local Government, which were developed and published with the support women’s groups and funding partners.
http://www.gdnonline.org/resources/gender-in-cbdrm.pdf
The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign celebrates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, agreed to on 30 June and to be formally adopted by the General Assembly on Friday, 2 July, to establish “UN Women”—the new gender equality entity at the UN. This move has been sought by women’s organizations and other civil society organizations around the world since the UN established a System-Wide Coherence Panel for UN Reform in 2006.
http://www.gearcampaign.org/index.php
Type:
Training course
Date: 23 Jul - 27 Aug 2010
Language: English
Organizer: International Institute for Sustainable Development, CSU (IISD)
The course mainly focuses on victim-centric, micro-level planning in disaster management and predominantly discusses the techniques that are useful at the individual/family/community level. It focuses on actions to be taken during and after the occurrence of disasters, rather than focusing on the mitigation.
Additional
information
http://www.colostate.edu/Orgs/IISD/courses/Disaster_Management.html
UNDP-Solution
Exchange Query: Indicators for Safe Schools.
FOR COMMENTS. Reply by 31 July 2010
SEEDS India with Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA), in partnership with Christian Aid, UK and with the support from European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) is working on a project titled “Localizing the Hyogo Framework of Action, Integrated Community Based DRR through Schools and Hospital Safety”. Among other activities the project intends to develop Indicators on school safety. The indicators will at a local level act as a tool to measure the preparedness levels of School and School Communities. They will promote the concept of local level Disaster Risk Reduction as an integrated model for prevention and preparedness for hospitals, schools and communities. The indicators will identify areas of action, role of stakeholders and will set the targets to be achieved by 2015. Apart from this a National Alliance of Schools has been formed which will take this initiative forward.
Towards this a National workshop on “Safe Schools and Hospitals: Developing Indicators for Practice” supported by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) organized in February 2010 in New Delhi, seeking from both policy makers and practitioners guidance for designing these indicators for practice. Based on this we have prepared a set of indicators for School Safety under the following Broad Categories:
·
Policy
· Curriculum
· Structural Mitigation
· Preparedness
· Sustainable Practices
· Health and Environment
To view the exhaustive list please click: ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/edu/resource/res08071001.doc
Taking this initiative further and to finalise the indicators, we request members of the Disaster Management and Education Community to kindly review the indicators for schools safety for their relevance to the context and also suggest more indicators for each category based on your experience and vision.
Your
contributions will be duly acknowledged in the final document. Looking
forward to an interesting sharing of ideas!
SEEDS India
New Delhi
Does Interdisciplinary Education improve the gender balance and attract more young people in Engineering and Technology higher education?
Les Cordeliers,
Conference Centre of the Paris University
Paris (France) –June 23-24th, 2011
Calendar:
October
15th, 2010: Deadline for abstract submission
End of December 2010: Abstract evaluation by the Scientific Committee
March 15th, 2011: Full paper submission
April 30th, 2011: Final decision by the SC
The Organisation Committee
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