1. Gender, Disability, and Disaster
Ilan Kelman
Senior Research Fellow – CICERO
Steering Group: Gender & Disaster Network

3. Gender and Disaster Network http://www.gdnonline.org
Researchers, policy makers, practitioners, community representatives.
Women and men, disaster and disaster risk reduction.
Document experience, do and apply research, share information, improve capacity.

4. Gender and Disaster Sourcebook

5. South Asia Floods More women die

6. USA Floods More men die

7. Fort Collins, Colorado 1997 Flood Memorial

8. Moving Forward? Better data.  Ethics of body counts? Cultural change.
 Right to change culture?
Climate change in context.
 As an opportunity?

9. Dealing
with
disasters
Gender
Disability

10. Gender, disability, and disaster: Do we have data on:
Gender-disaggregated data regarding different types of disabilities?
Rates of disaster-caused disabilities for males and females?
Male and female reaction and response times when they have different forms of disabilities?
Exclusion from different disaster-related activities by gender for people with disabilities?

12. Gender, disability, and disaster: Do we have data on:
Gender-disaggregated data regarding different types of disabilities?
Rates of disaster-caused disabilities for males and females?
Male and female reaction and response times when they have different forms of disabilities?
Exclusion from different disaster-related activities by gender for people with disabilities?

13. Gender, disability, and disaster: Continuing questions
How do gender-related disabilities impact disaster-related work?
What different contributions do women and men with disabilities make to disaster-related work?
How could scientific results be turned into action?

14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

16. Tsunami comparison
World Press Photo of the Year, 2004
© Arko Datta

17. Climate change and floods
Warmer atmosphere = More rain.
More rain = More floods.
More floods ≠ More flood disasters.
More flood disasters ≠ More flood deaths.

18. Climate change and floods
But:
Theory ≠ Practice
So:
Be prepared for more flood deaths
as part of climate change.
Meaning:
Know the importance of gender.