How are we portraying women and girls in disaster? Are they shown as victims, lacking agency? Linda Raftree works with Plan International USA and blogs about cutting edge use of technology in development. Check out her post on putting women and girls on the map in disaster.  The post discusses  the resiliency of women and girls and how they are taking action within their communities to mitigate and prevent disaster.  Through the use of crowdsourcing applications – we can show it!

Disaster Risk Reduction is increasingly finding a place on the development agenda, so much so that the UN has designated an International Day for Disaster Reduction. Mapping gender in disaster situations is an emerging area within DRR and has something EiE Canada is looking at exploring further over the next few months. Stay tuned for more on DDR and EiE Canada!