Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR): Diversity & WPS

The aims of the paper are twofold: to raise general awareness about gender and how it relates to security risk management, and to provide practical tools for effective integration of gender-specific considerations to the existing security management practices.

This document explores a range of security challenges from cyber and technology threats, to the gendered security implications of climate change and pandemics. A diverse group of experts and practitioners has provided think pieces on various aspects of emerging areas in which a gender perspective will be important.

The Nordic Center for Gender in Military Operations is run by the Swedish Armed Forces and contains resources related to Women, Peace, and Security.

This landmark resolution reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention & resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, humanitarian response & in post-conflict reconstruction & stresses the importance of their equal participation & full involvement in all these efforts.

UN Women works to promote peace by supporting women of all backgrounds and ages to participate in processes to prevent conflict and build and sustain peace.

On June 11, 2019, the U.S. Government (USG) released the United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy). The USG developed the WPS Strategy to advance women’s meaningful participation in preventing and resolving conflict, countering violent extremism (CVE) and terrorism, and building post-conflict peace and stability.

This research paper first analyses key insights into partnership dynamics, including strengths and weaknesses from the international NGO (INGO) perspective. The latest research builds on this work by dedicating similar attention to the perspectives of local and national NGOs (L/NNGOs).

This website was created to facilitate and guide disaster risk planning of communities by encouraging collaboration within and between Indigenous communities. Various resources are provided.

The U.S DoD's WPS Defense Objectives provide long-term end states to guide the DoD's implementation of the WPS Strategy. This strategy continues the DoD's role as a global model for diversity & inclusivity while working with partner nations to support women's meaningful participation within the defense & security sectors.

An article that discusses the ways in which aid workers and non-governmental organisations can prepare and respond to digital threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) aid workers.

The U.S. strategy on women, peace and security provides the Defense Department with an internationally recognized path to pursuing long-term security and stability while also demonstrating our commitment to dignity, human rights and equality under the law. At its core, the WPS strategy recognizes the unique effect of conflict on women and girls, as well as the positive influence women have on everything from peace negotiations to managing and minimizing conflict.

A online platform dedicated to resources about how indigenous people around the world approach environmental disaster risk reduction.

From the Wavell Room, this article explores why adopting gender-neutral language is beneficial for the armed forces.

This article explores how Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) communities experience the impacts of disasters differently than heterosexual and cisgender individuals.

This research is designed to better understand whether diversity is systematically addressed by aid organisations within their security risk management systems, and what challenges aid organisations face in relation to managing the security of aid workers while being mindful of their diversity.

A website containing examples and resources about how the LGBTQ+ community are often marginalized during emergencies caused by natural disasters and conflict.

In addition to multiple regional and country-level research reports that help document local priorities and needs, USAID has supported a variety of global research reports related to LGBTQI+ inclusion that are described in this website.