As part of the response to help those NGOs and organisations trying to cope with the terrible disasters in Honduras and Nicaragua we were asked to help compile a list of information sources that cover the gender aspects of relief and rehabilitation. This is the first tentative draft. Some of the main documents have been downloaded locally in Managua to speed up access and improve their availability. These are indicated - contact Sarah Bradshaw

If connections with ELDIS are proving frustrating try our rudimentary repeat links culled from ELDIS and some other services as a backup, it may be easier to use over slow connections and intermittent lines. Gender links (1), Gender Links (2) and our international development participation links

How to get to this page: http://www.ipeople.co.uk/iSDgender.html

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Sources of Information Gender and Disasters

Documents  •   'Official' sources: documents and guidelines •  Web pages and resource bases • How to obtain these documents

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Documents:

1. WEAVING GENDER IN DISASTER AND REFUGEE AASSISTANCE • CAW

The document can be accessed and downloaded from the Commission on the
Advancement of Women home page http://www.interaction.org/caw/caw.html - it is quite long over 50 pages (Full DOC: CAW full) - Some interesting points made in the document (DOC:  CAW pts pp6) - Summary document in preparation (DOC: CAW sum)

2. INTEGRATING GENDER INTO EMERGENCY RESPONSES,  BRIDGE Issue No 4, IDS

http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk/ids/research/bridge/dgb4.html
Including articles on the following themes: Overcoming the tyranny of the urgent, Gender Sensitivity in Food relief - Full document available from Sarah Bradshaw for those in Nicaragua

3. CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT, BRIDGE Issue No 3, IDS

http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk/ids/research/bridge/dgb3.html
Includes articles on the following themes:  From crisis to transformation?
A gender analysis of conflict, Gender and conflict: key resources, Currents
in development and gender - Full document downloaded (DOC: IDS BRIDGE pp10) in Managua

4. EVALUATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES, Phase 1

Report, APT CONSULT (First Draft)
A large document that has been divided into the following sections (full
DOC: DESKR9) -Glossary of terms, e.g. explains difference between 'complex' emergencies and disasters etc.  (DOC:  Glossary ) - Section 3.3 The Social Dimension: Issues of participation and gender (DOC:  Ralph gender )

5. WOMEN IN DISASTERS: CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS,

Exploring the Issues Seminar, May 5-6, 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia
Brings together various summaries of papers (North American focus)
presented around the following themes: - Gender and Disaster: What are the Issues?, Women's Voices, Disaster and Domestic Violence (Full DOC:  latest.doc pp 35) - or papers on each theme can be extracted (at request)

6. BATTERED WOMEN IN DISASTER: A CASE STUDY OF GENDERED VULNERABILITY,

Elaine Enarson paper presented at American Sociological Association, August
1998-11-10  (DOC:  asa.doc  pp 18)
ABSTRACT
The cycle of domestic violence increases women's housing, economic,
emotional, and physical insecurity, and hence women's vulnerability to the
impacts of disaster. While data are limited, service providers have
reported that violence against women also increases after disasters. Using
open-ended telephone interviewing and a closed-question mail survey of 77
Canadian and US domestic violence programs, this study confirmed the
association. Those shelters most severely impacted by flooding, earthquake,
and hurricane reported both increased service demand, as long as one year
after the event, and decreased organizational resources to respond to women
experiencing both disaster and domestic violence. Survey results indicated
low levels of in-house emergency preparedness among these grassroots
women's organizations but strong interest in increasing their disaster
readiness. Strategies for more fully engaging women's services in
community-based disaster mitigation, planning, and response are suggested.

7. WOMEN AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION:  ISSUES AND SOURCES

WSP Occasional Paper 3, June 1998
The document can be accessed from http://www.unrisd.org/wsp/op3/toc.htm
Although on post-conflict situations does have some relevance ,
particularly the following sections: - Section 3 Economic Reconstruction (DOC:  WSP Econ pp 11) - Section 4 Social Reconstruction (DOC:  WSP Soc pp 9) - Conclusions including methodological issues (DOC: WSP Conc pp 7) - Summary of key points in preparation (DOC:  WSP Sum)

8. GENDER ISSUES IN BUILDING THE COMMUNITY VOICE INTO PLANNING

In Journal of Humanitarian Asssistance: http://www-jha.sps.cam.ac.uk/a/a624.htm
Dr Neil Andersson, CIET group of NGOs,(email: CIETbrussels@compuserve.com)
(Downloaded Full DOC: CIET pp 13)
ABSTRACT
Women are key players in development and a decade of CIET experience in 42
countries has produced several lessons worth sharing and many mistakes
worth avoiding as we work to build the community voice in
planning.CIET is a South non-governmental organisation consisting of an
international cadre of professionals from a variety of disciplines who
bring scientific research methods to the community level.CIET had
developed a method of sentinel community surveillance (SCS) which involves
communities in information gathering and analysis.The method facilitates
the gathering of both quantitative and qualitative data, its
analysis in term of impact, coverage and costs, and community-led solutions
that are sustainable and locally relevant. The CIET method of facilitating
community access to appropriate measurement technology,
builds national and local evaluation capabilities in reiterative
cycles.This article distills the experience with gender issues using the
SCS approach. The five identifiable methodological steps may be of
relevance to other methods: the first is the analysis of existing data in
terms of gender; second is the stratification of responses, analysing
differences by sex of respondent; third is the processing of key findings
by female focus groups, to obtain their interpretation of the data even
when respondents are men; fourth, the epidemiological backbone of SCS permits
analysis of gender-related risk and resilience; and, fifth, logistics of
fieldwork are configured to maximise participation.With support from the
World Bank, UNICEF and the IDRC, the methods have been adapted for use
in public sector reform, national campaigns against corruption, and
improving the effectiveness and transparency of the police, judiciary,
environmental programmes and urban transport.

9. THROUGH A GENDER LENS:  RESOURCES FOR POPULATION, NUTRITION AND HEALTH

PROJECTS, Family Health International

http://www.fhi.org/wsp/wspubs/thrugen.html (Downloaded Full DOC:  FHI pp35)
Includes -  Useful evaluation of different techniques and manuals + contact
details
(DOC: FHI Man pp18)

10. LINKS:  GENDER AND HEALTH , March 1998, Oxfam GB

http://www.oneworld.org/oxfam/policy/gender/9811fron.htm
Two relevant articles on Emergencies and Violence and Reproductive health
care
(DOC: LINKS pp4)

11. LESSONS FROM THE RWANDA EXPERIENCE

ODI publication
The document can be accessed and downloaded from
http://www.ing.dk/danida/rwanda.html
It critically analyses the response in the case of Rwanda some gender but
more general - sections on health, media and effectiveness of NGOs may be
useful.  (Full DOC:  Danida pp142)  -  Summary of key points in preparation
(DOC:  Danida Sum)

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'Official' sources: documents and guidelines

1. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE (DAC), OECD

http://www.oecd.org/dac/htm/pubs/p-gender.htm
Access to various documents including:
DAC Guidelines for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
(Downloaded version PDF Format only DOC:  DAC1 pp37)
Gender Equality:  Moving Toward Sustainable People Centred Development
(DOC:  DAC2 pp7)
DAC Source Book on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality
(Can be downloaded PDF format only pp80)

2. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HUMANITARIAN OFFICE (ECHO)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/index.html
Various Council Resolutions and Minutes of meetings around gender issues
Useful in terms of justification for 'why gender' - especially conclusions
-  meeting 22 Nov 96 on Gender and Crisis, prevention, emergency operations
and rehabilitation (DOC:  Echo pp3)
- Other council resolutions of Gender also available (DOC:  Council Reso pp8)
- Information on funding bids procedure for ECHO funds (relief and rehab)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/inter.html

3. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (ODI)

http://www.oneworld.org/odi/
Web page of Humanitarian Policy Group
http://www.oneworld.org/odi/odi_hpg.html
Some interesting documents:
- The Future of Food Aid:  A Policy Review (DOC ODI1 pp9)
http://www.oneworld.org/odi/foodaid_find.html
- Briefing Paper March 1998 The State of the International Humanitarian
System
(DOC: ODI2 pp9)
http://www.oneworld.org/odi/briefing/1_98.html

Web pages and resource bases

1. ELDIS

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.htm
A Gateway to information sources on development and the environment, hosted
by IDS Sussex.  Various documents of interest are on line (but at present I
am having problems accessing them...)
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Eldis Guide to Gender Sources - Covering the integration of gender-policy into the development programmes/projects of donor agencies
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dbtcgi.exe?RNO=ht4&$TEXTBASE_PATH=d:\InetPub\wwwroot\data\&$TEXTBASE_NAME=high&$MAXRECS=10&$NOREPORT=0&$NODISPLAY=0&$REPORT_FORM=htop&$DISPLAY_FORM=htop

2. RELIEF AND REHABILITATION NETWORK (RNN)

http://www.oneworld.org/odi/rrn/index.htm
Contains various documents related to Aid and emergencies, can be searched
for specific information.

3. GENDER AND DISASTER NETWORK (GDN)

http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/IHC/gender/
An academic network but as yet not much information is contained on the web
page.  Does have a list of members and their specialities/contact details,
plus bibliography

4. OXFAM

http://www.oneworld.org/oxfam/policy/gender/lgender.htm
Oxfam's gender page with access to various documents etc

5. INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (IDS) Sussex

http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk/ids/aboutids/index.html
Various publications available on line, including
-  BRIDGES Development and Gender in Brief
http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk/ids/publicat/gender.html
(other themes not above: Poverty, Environment, Economic Reform,
Institutionalising gender)
-  Policy Briefings: general themes include participation, small firms,
good government
http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk/ids/publicat/briefs.html

6. JOURNAL OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

http://www-jha.sps.cam.ac.uk/jha.htm
Contains various articles, policy documents and current mission reports.

Other Resources

1. Bibliography on rehabilitation
A short bibliography of papers and articles dealing with linking rehabilitation and relief and development assistance, from the author’s work evaluating programmes and projects over the year (Ralph Kinnear) for the EU, bilaterals and other agencies. (download)

2. Excerpt on linking relief, rehabilitation and development (referencs are to the above bibliography)

How to obtain these documents

Those in Central America within reach of Managua: For copies of any of the documents listed above, or for further information on a specific issue covered Please contactSarah Bradshaw on  sarahb@nicarao.org.ni

Others please contact Ralph Kinnear, iSD, mailto: rkinnear@iccr.demon.co.uk or Hazel Johnstone, LSE Gender Institute, mailto: h.johnstone@lse.ac.uk

Also if you have a specific topic of interest not covered above - let us know and we will see what we can do

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