International Conference on Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction

The conference expects to achieve a good understanding of the opportunities and challenges for mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction.

Themes:
* Promoting policy changes for gender sensitive disaster management and disaster risk reduction
* Linking disaster risk reduction with poverty reduction from gender perspectives
* Making disaster risk reduction a tool for climate change adaptation from gender perspective
* Ensuring equal participation of men and women in building community resilience to disasters
* Women and post-disaster relief and reconstruction: one year after Wenchuan earthquake

Please contact Ms Hongju at guozuchu [at} yahoo [dot] cn, gzch [at] women [dot] org [dot] cn for any further information.