Subject(s): Emergency management in Sex differences in South Asia. -- Disaster victims in South Asia in Psychology. -- Disasters- growing problem, understanding vulnerability to disaster, linking disasters and development, current development -- Alternative approach to disasters : Gender issues in disasters -- Impact of disaster on women and men realities for south Asia : Gender based differences in coping with disasters, gender based differences in community preparedness for disaster, coping with disaster strikes, rebuilding after a disaster -- Current practice- absence of gender sensitivity in disaster management, agendas for change policy and practice, agenda for policy makers, guidelines for disaster management practitioners - Planning initial disaster responses, emergency management, planning for rehabilitation/reconstruction -- gender & development