UNISDR: UN Secretary General's Message on International Day for Disaster Reduction. .

The theme of this year's observance of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, "Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School" highlights the need to keep our children safe and to involve them directly in our work to strengthen disaster preparedness. Read more...

ISDR: Let Our Children Teach Us: A Review of the Role of Education and Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction. by Ben Wisner. July 2006

This review examines good practices to reduce disaster risk through education, knowledge and innovation (including efforts to protect schools from extreme natural events). It looks critically and strategically at current activities in order to identify gaps, opportunities in the form of synergisms and partnerships, and centres of innovation. Read more...

WORLD BANK: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

The World Bank has created a new global facility, The Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), designed to integrate disaster reduction strategies and sustainable recovery in development plans of countries believed to be at high risk for natural catastrophes. Read more...

HUAIROU COMMISSION: Statement at World Urban Forum -3, Vancouver, Canada, June 2006.

Actionable Ideas Developed at Grassroots Women’s International Academy, led by GROOTS International and Presented by the Huairou Commission at the World Urban Forum 3. Read more...

RESOURCE INNOVATIONS: Community Capacity and the Environment: Social Vulnerability and Natural Hazards. University of Oregon

Resource Innovations is actively participating in the Gender and Disaster Network (GDN), an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts. Each year, Resource Innovations creates a poster highlighting the efforts of GDN Members. Click here to download the poster...

ISDR: Partnership to Promote Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters

In the wake of more disasters to come, the World Bank is teaming up with the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) and has launched a Global
Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery to reduce the impact of disasters caused by natural hazards on populations and their livelihoods. Read more.....

PROVENTION CONSORTIUM-IIASA:Disaster Insurance for the Poor?: A review of microinsurance for natural disaster risks in developing countries.


By Reinhard Mechler and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer with David Peppiatt. This study reviews microinsurance schemes that provide cover for natural disaster risks
in developing countries. It is not intended to be exhaustive—many schemes are in the planning stages and there is only limited, open-source information—but to give an overview of the potential and the challenges of microinsurance for the poor.  Read more..


INDEPENDENT EVALUATION GROUP, THE WORLDBANK: Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development Hazards: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank
Assistance for Natural Disasters.

This report recommends several adjustments to the way the Bank currently handles natural disasters. First, it suggests revisions to policy to better guide staff and enhance flexibility of Bank responses to natural disasters.Read more....

RELIEF WEB: A Comprehensive Conceptual Model for Disaster Management

HUAIROU COMMISSION: Grassroots Women at the World Urban Forum-III
June 19 – 23, 2006, Vancouver

IDRC: Gender in Davos Declaration. 2006.

INDONESIA: Policy Recommendations on Post-Earthquake Housing
Reconstruction in Jogyakarta and Central Java

Considering the fact that over 50 active organisations have been providing the majority of housing through community-based approaches, the participants of the seminar agreed upon the following lessons-learned. Read more....

The ratio of injuries to deaths in acute natural disasters is a useful indicator for many purposes. It describes a disaster type by the epidemiological profile of its immediate impact on populations. For instance, a high injury to death ratio could be expected in certain types of disasters such as cyclones, and a lower one in earthquakes where people tend to die or survive. While injuries in earthquakes are serious, they are rarely widespread. Read more....

Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (RHRC): Field Friendly Guide to Integrating Emergency Obstetric Care in Humanitarian Programs

This step-by-step field-friendly guide for implementing quality emergency obstetric care has been produced by the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children (Women’s Commission) on behalf of the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium. Read more....

UNCHR: Getting Back Home - Impact on Property Rights of the Indian Ocean Earthquake-Tsunami 2004

The paper tries to make the case for the proposition that the property rights of all
people who are displaced by natural disasters anywhere must be adequately protected by international law. Read more...


INDIA: Housing Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Gujarat: A Comparative Analysis

This paper focuses on the provision of permanent housing after the earthquake, and so does not discuss semipermanent shelters. The chapters that follow discuss five different housing reconstruction approaches employed in Gujarat along which the paper is structured. Read more...

UGANDA: Land Conflicts and their Impact on Refugee Women's Livelihoods in Southwestern Uganda

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a study on land conflicts between refugees and host communities in southwestern Uganda and their impact on refugee women's livelihoods. Read more...

UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE: The Role of Women in Stabilization and Reconstruction. August 2006

INTER AGENCY STANDING COMMITTE (IASA): Women, Girls Boys & Men, Different Needs – Equal Opportunities, A Gender handbook for
Humanitarian Actiont

This handbook sets forth standards for the integration of gender issues from the outset of a new complex emergency or disaster, so that humanitarian services provided neither exacerbate nor inadvertently put people at risk; reach their target audience; and have maximum positive impact. Read more...

TEARFUND: Framework for assessing DRR in a development Programme

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WORLD PEACE FORUM: Final Statement – Women'’s Working Group, WPF 2006

The statement of Women's Working Group presented at World Peace Forum Women’s Program, held in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, June 23 to June 28, 2006. They have gathered and exchanged stories from many countries. They have come to the conclusion that poverty, violation of human rights, inequality, environmental destruction, miniaturization and violence are increasing as the plans for a globalized, privatized world moves forward. Read more...

TSUNAMI RESPONSE WATCH: Money for Life.

A boat ride across the choppy waters of Palk Straits is a logistical nightmare. Especially when it is night, and the trip is illegal. The boat meant for a few fishermen had 15 adult refugees and some children. The water was choppy, wind unpredictable, and possibly the Sri Lankan Naval patrol boats were somewhere around in the darkness. Read more...

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH: Migration in Central Asia and Its Possible Implications for Women and Children

According to a recent report, 80% of prostitution in Western Europe have been trafficked from Moldova , the poorest of the former Soviet Union republics. Moldovan, Azerbaijani and Tajik women who are trafficked are mostly between 19 and 35 years old, and come from rural areas and most have already moved to major cities under their own volition. Their education is poor and 88% are estimated to already have one child. Read more...