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Book
Gender, Development, and Humanitarian Work
Published: 2001
Pages: 100
eBook: 9780855987404
Paperback: 9780855984571
Conflict, displacement and natural disasters are experienced differently by men and women from the different risks and vulnerabilities they face during disasters to their changing roles, relationships, responsibilities and resources in preparing for and coping with crisis. Despite this differences between men’s and women’s needs are not always fully integrated into humanitarian interventions. Addressing gender issues from the outset can make the difference between success and failure. This collection of articles explores the interface between gender and humanitarian work. Several contributors focus on humanitarian activity during natural disasters or analyse responses to conflict. Others consider the post-crisis period of reconstruction and provide lessons and recommendations for conflict resolution and peace-building. While the difficulties of integrating gender equity goals into interventions are acknowledged, the authors argue that gender-blind responses can further endanger the survival of women and their families and their long term position in society and also deny them the opportunity of exercising their potential as peace-builders.
- Editorial
- Caroline Sweetman, Fiona Gell, and Deborah Clifton
- Saving and protecting lives by empowering women
- Deborah Clifton and Fiona Gell
- Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender and the aftermath of war
- Suzanne Williams
- Gender, conflict and building sustainable peace: recent lessons in Latin America
- Caroline O.N.Moser and Fiona C. Clark
- Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts
- Hisham Khogali and Parmjit Takhar
- Healing the psychological wounds of gender-related violence in Latin America: a model for gender-sensitive work in post-conflict contexts
- Helen Leslie
- Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel
- Esther Hertzog
- Gendering ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan: forgotten elements in promoting peace and democracy
- L.M.Handrahan
- Reconstructing roles and relations: women's participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua
- Sarah Bradshaw
- Resources
- Compiled by Nittaya Thiraphouth
- Publications
- Organisations
- Electronic resources
Caroline Sweetman was previously Editor of the international journal Gender & Development.
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