Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress?
18 March 2025, 6:30 pm–9:00 pm

Join us to mark the Sendai Framework's 10th anniversary and the 6th anniversary of the UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster, exploring disaster risk reduction through a gender lens.
This event is free.
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Claire Meade
The UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) invites you to a special evening commemorating two significant milestones. This panel discussion will examine achievements since the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015, with particular focus on progress in gender and disaster risk reduction. The event will also launch a special journal issue celebrating the Framework's 10th anniversary.
This event is hosted by UCL RDR in collaboration with the Centre for Gender and Disaster, bringing together expertise in disaster risk reduction, gender studies and resilience.
This is a public event open to all interested attendees. Registration via Eventbrite is essential due to limited space.
Light refreshments will be served during the networking reception.
About the Speakers
Shigeo-Tatsuki
Shigeo Tatsuki is a disaster sociologist focused on long-term recovery for vulnerable populations since the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. His work includes leading longitudinal recovery surveys, contributing to inclusive disaster policy, and organizing international studies following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. His efforts in social science and disaster resilience have been widely recognised.
More about Shigeo-TatsukiKristen Guida
Kristen Guida is Head of Strategy, Prevention, and Community Resilience, and has been leading on City Resilience at the Greater London Authority since March 2022. Before that, she worked for more than 15 years coordinating climate change adaptation partnerships, as Manager of the London Climate Change Partnership, Director of Climate South East, and Chair of Climate UK. Her major interest is in bringing together people and ideas from across sectors to respond to social and environmental resilience challenges. In particular, she is interested in the social justice issues raised by climate change and other crises, and the need to incorporate equity in resilience policy and planning. Previously, she worked on human rights, as a Senior Researcher on political rights, civil liberties and press freedom at Freedom House in New York.
More about Kristen GuidaMiwako Kitamura
Research Fellow at Tohoku University
Dr Miwako Kitamura, a researcher at IRIDeS and Sasakawa USA Senior Fellow (non-resident), specialises in gender and disaster, with a focus on social vulnerability, women’s leadership, and community-driven disaster resilience.
More about Miwako KitamuraLouisa Acciari
Louisa Acciari has a Master's in Comparative Politics – Latin America (Sciences Po Paris) and a PhD in Gender Studies (LSE). She is the Director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster at the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. Her research looks at gender in the world of labour through an intersectional and decolonial lens, particularly how marginalised and informal women workers organise to defend their rights. She has been studying and collaborating with the domestic workers’ movement in Brazil and Latin America since 2014 and recently started researching the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the sector. Before joining UCL in August 2020, Louisa worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for two years and has extensive experience in conducting research, consultancy and training on gender and labour rights with the ILO, the International Domestic Workers’ Federation, Solidarity Centre and the OECD, among others.
More about Louisa AcciariIlan Kelman
Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at UCL and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, integrating climate change into both.
More about Ilan KelmanPunam Yadav
Dr Punam Yadav is a Gender Scholar, Director of UCL Humanitarian Institute and Co-Director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster. One of Dr Yadav’s key contributions includes bringing conflict into the conversation of gender and disaster and seeing these as a continuum.
More about Punam Yadav