Gender and Disaster Australia (GADAus) aims to be the leading national organisation offering evidence-based education, training and resources to address the harmful effects of gendered expectations before, during and after disasters. One of its most notable recent projects was to develop resources that combine academic and grey literature within particular themes.
These reviews delve into crucial topics and serve as a valuable resource for the sector, offering an evidence base to address gender and gender-based violence issues within in the emergency and disaster management realm. This issue of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management presents a selection of reviews from the collection (see Endnotes).
The reviews offer nuanced, evidence-based insights into current sector and academic thinking on various themes and their relationship with gender and disaster. Recognising that time is a scarce resource in the sector, the reviews are succinct so readers can quickly grasp the debate in relation to each theme and how it may influence their work. The reviews could be seen as a provocation for further discussion and action within disaster management and emergency services. They aim to prompt and provide evidence of reconsideration of current practices and policies and push for an inclusive and responsive approach to gender and disaster issues.
The reviews aim to increase understanding of gender issues and inform effective strategies. Finally, they can be used to guide other work. Each review identifies gaps where further attention is required to progress an inclusive and gender-responsive sector so those appeals for change do not fade into silence.
The GADAus literature review collection includes:
- disabilities, gender and disaster
- First Nations, gender and disaster1
- intersectionality, gender and disaster
- masculinity, gender and disaster2
- rurality, gender and disaster
- sexual violence, gender and disasters3
- sexual reproductive health, gender and disaster
- socio-economics, gender and disasters4
- volunteering, gender and disaster
- culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), gender and disaster.