Now formal: Mary Fran Myers Award 2012 Award Winner Damairia Pakpaharan
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/awards/mfma_winners.html
Again, lets congratulate mbak Damai!!! (Webmasternya mis-spell
Pakpahan sebagai Pakpaharan. Mungkin mbak Damai perlu let them know.
Danke
Damairia (Damai) Pakpahan has worked for decades in the areas of
gender justice and development, including work related to the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami and issues of climate change and earthquakes. She
has personally trained more 500 civil servants on issues of gender,
development, and disasters. Her work for the Aceh Tsunami Programme
has significantly increased understanding of gender issues. Pakpahan's
passion and advocacy for women and children in disaster clearly
distinguished her as this year's winner of the Mary Fran Myers Award.
Pakpahan, of Indonesia, has served as a program officer with Oxfam in
Jakarta and as a gender analyst for the Indonesia Disaster Management
Society’s Gender Working Group. She is the co-founder of multiple
organizations that focus on women's poverty, gender-based violence,
street children, disabilities, land rights, and disaster concerns.
Pakpahan's has published widely on issues of gender and disasters for
women's studies journals and for the broader media. Her work advocates
for gender issues in the Indonesia National Disaster Management Law.
As one nominator said, Pakpahan is the “perfect mixture of activism,
feminism, journalist, and intellectual with a strong passion for
gender and disaster.”
Cool.