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The WRD team puts a strong emphasis on ensuring that women’s narratives and experiences are valued equally as knowledge. The WRD hub provides a platform for women and women’s organisations to share their messages and demands around gender-responsive resilience and for experts to share their insights.

This section allows you to explore:

Women’s perspectives on building the resilience of women and girls to disasters and threats;
WRD Expert insights on enabling gender-responsive and inclusive decision making and practice;
Regional insights including good practice case studies;
The library with the latest resources; and
Recommended platforms for exploring these issues further.

Women's perspectives

Women are powerful agents of change
Vitila is working to empower other women.
Vitila Vuniwaqa, Owner, Vees Farm, Fiji

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Women are advocating for inclusivity
"See me for my ability, not for my disability"
Naomi Tai, Advocate, People with Disability, Solomon Islands

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Women are facilitating community training
“I try to assist the community in the outer islands to build their resilience against climate change by facilitating trainings."
Ahling Onorio, Kiribati Organic Farmers Association, Kiribati

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WRD Technical Insights

Some of the leading WRD experts have shared insights on key topics relevant for building women’s resilience to disasters. These range from why gender-responsive and inclusive policy frameworks are important through to how women are successfully building resilient businesses.

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Blogs

Leading from the frontline in Vanuatu

Blogs

Inter-generational feminist collaboration for transformative action in the Pacific

Grandmother with her daughter in a field

Caribbean

The impacts of climate change and natural hazards are compounding structural inequalities and socioeconomic vulnerabilities in the Caribbean. There is therefore growing momentum in the region to address the underlying drivers of unequal disaster risk as a foundation for building women's resilience.

West and Central Africa

UN Women’s work in West and Central Africa mainly aims at providing high-quality technical and policy advisory services, generating knowledge, developing tools and capacity development initiatives to support country-level programming.

Regional Insights

We are collecting regional resources, insights, and good practices for building women's resilience to disasters.

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We will continue to add collections for additional regions.

Publications

Women, ICT and emergency telecommunications: opportunities and constraints

Publications | Research

Metodología de análisis de riesgos de desastres locales desde una perspectiva interseccional

Library

Over 1,600 resources…
The Library provides access to key resources, including relevant resources from the PreventionWeb and UN Women websites, as well as new content developed specifically for the WRD Knowledge Hub. The Library allows you to explore the latest publications and documents, tools and guidance, news, blogs, interviews, and case studies shared by disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, resilience, gender equality, and social inclusion practitioners.

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