Publications
Gender and Disaster
Guidelines for Gender-sensitive Disaster Management: Practical Steps to Ensure Women’s Needs are Met and Women’s Human Rights are Respected and Protected. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD). 2006. 84 pages.
These guidelines have been formulated to assist governments, the non-State sector and civil society in dealing with women who have been affected by natural disasters. They are meant to be practical, easy-to-follow steps that need to be taken in responding to women ‘s concerns in post-disaster situations. They have been categorized into immediate, mid-term and long-term responses. However, there could be overlaps in the responses, and this factor needs to be taken into consideration in implementing the guidelines.
These guidelines are the result of the documentation project Survey of Women ‘s Human Rights Violations in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in India, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka and the October 8, 2005 Earthquake in Pakistan, co-ordinated by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), a women’s human rights network of over 140 members in 23 countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
This publication can be accessed at http://www.apwld.org/pdf/Gender_Sensitive.pdf
