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Disasters and gender: presence and absence (HCRI Landmark Lecture) [1]

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Date: 2022-10 

The HCRI 2022 Landmark Lecture will be given by UCL's Prof. Maureen Fordham, an expert on community-based disaster risk reduction and vulnerability analysis, focusing on the inclusion of a range of marginalised social groups in disaster risk reduction, especially women and girls.

More on Maureen at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/people/prof-maureen-fordham

DETAILS: The talk and Q&A, will be followed by a drinks and canapés reception in the Roscoe Building foyer This event is open to the public and all staff/students at University of Manchester This will be a hybrid-event, with the option of attending in-person or online (please choose the correct ticket option)

REGISTER VIA: https://landmarklecture.eventbrite.co.uk/

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There is now a considerable body of work that addresses a range of issues that connect gender and disaster (see resources at https://www.gdnonline.org/resources). For some parts of the disaster-humanitarianism-development nexus, it is no longer necessary to explain why we need to include gender; for others there is still much work to be done. For example, disaster warning systems often prioritise technical over social parameters, but we will see a UN Women video whose main protagonist (a grassroots Unit Leader in the Cyclone Preparedness Program Bangladesh), clearly articulates the gendered social context of warnings.

The disaster-humanitarianism-development nexus itself encompasses many differing aims, worldviews, tasks and approaches – even without the addition of gender. Bringing all these together can mean that we all may be starting at very different levels of understanding, interest or willingness to engage with this issue.

This presentation offers some examples of the ways the gender and disaster connection has been addressed, sidelined or simplified and some thoughts about continuing gaps, challenges and opportunities. For example, we will explore how Bangladesh has made a major gender responsive input to their National Resilience Programme, the goal of which is ‘To sustain the resilience of human and economic development in Bangladesh through inclusive, gender responsive disaster management and risk informed development’ (here).

In policy areas (e.g the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030), we have seen some enhancement of the gender focus since earlier Global Frameworks, but we still need to make the case for a vision that goes beyond a narrow focus on women and on women as vulnerable, and that addresses intersectionality.

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