Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. This presentation is part of Oxfam GB's Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction training pack available at www.oxfam.org.uk/genderdrrpack.

1. Gender and disaster risk reduction Gender mainstreaming and gender analysis in work addressing risk reduction What is gender analysis? PowerPoint 2.2 Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction : A training pack

7. Gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against women (VAW) - definitions GBV Physical, mental, psychological, or social abuse, committed on the basis of the victim’s gender and against their will VAW ‘ Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life’ ( Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993) )

10. Oxfam GB, July 2011 This presentation is part of Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack available in full from www.oxfam.org.uk/genderdrrpack