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This is the World Bank (WB) webpage dealing with the gender topic

HUmaniatrian Response - Gender - webpage -cross-cutting issue

Established in 2006, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a partnership of 41 countries and 8 international organizations committed to helping developing countries reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and adapt to climate change. The partnership's mission is to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in country development strategies by supporting a country-led and managed implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). GFDRR's Partnership Charter, revised in April 2010, sets its original mission, rationale, and governance structure

The Humanitarian Kiosk (HKiosk) application provides a range of up-to-the-minute humanitarian related information from emergencies around the world. The application has multiple independant kiosks which reflect locations where UN-OCHA operates or there is an ongoing international humanitarian emergency

Curently only for iPad, Android will follow somewhere in 2013

The use of indices to measure changes in countries across different policy areas is becoming increasingly frequent. From human rights to conflict, from governance to gender, many organizations have invested in developing statistical models that derive data from multiple sources and rank countries according to their score. The IPI's Global Observatory provides the first list of country indices available in open-sources. It reviews thirty indices and provides a description of the methodology and results.

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is a non-profit research organization dedicated to shifting the world's focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. It achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measurement; uncovering the relationship between peace, business and prosperity, and by promoting a better understanding of the cultural, economic and political factors that drive peacefulness

The Global Health Cluster (GHC), under the leadership of the World Health Organization, is made up of more than 30 international humanitarian health organizations that have been working together over the past four years to build partnerships and mutual understanding and to develop common approaches to humanitarian health action

Complimentary to the Disaster Needs Analyses (DNAs) published for Mali, Niger and Chad, a DNA for Mauritania has been published

Through the establishment of a Centre for Gender in Military Operations we take one important step towards further develop this piece of the puzzle, making sure that we integrate Gender Perspectives into the planning, execution and evaluation of any military operation

CAPRICORN is an EDA Research & Development Project devoted to develop capabilities in the complex and critical sector of Military Operation Planning, specifically for Not-Article5/San Petersburg Operations, by using Simulation & CGF (Computer Generated Forces) based on Intelligent Agents (IAs).

Anthony Cleland Welch OBE (Born 1945 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a UK based former soldier, UN official, politician and academic who has contributed to the debate on security sector reform and post-conflict development and regeneration

Humanitarian Operations Mobile Acquisition of Data

This site provides a series of summaries that introduce good practices in the FAO's areas of expertise

ECHO has issued Gender Age Marker Toolkit

"The Global Gender Gap Report, introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, provides a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities around the world. The index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparison across regions and income groups and over time. The rankings are designed to create greater awareness among a global audience of the challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities created by reducing them. The methodology and quantitative analysis behind the rankings are intended to serve as a basis for designing effective measures for reducing gender gaps"