Introduction: Gender, Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response
Publisher: Gender & Development
Author(s): Julie Lafrenière, Caroline Sweetman, and Theresia Thylin
Date: 2019
Topics: Conflict Prevention, Disasters, Gender, Humanitarian Assistance, Programming
Countries: Australia, Bangladesh, China, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, United States
Welcome to this issue of Gender & Development, which is a joint issue co-edited with Theresia Thylin of UN Women’s Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response Office, and Julie Lafrenière of Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team. In this issue, we feature an array of articles commissioned with the goal of supporting humanitarian programming that promotes gender equality, women’s rights, women’s empowerment and leadership.