Advancing gender-transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific

Women are building the capacities of others to reduce risks

Goundo is working to build women’s capacity to secure their environmental rights and protects their nature-based livelihoods.

Fatoumata Goundo Sissoko

Meet Goundo, who is dedicated to building women's capacity in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, capitalising on existing skills and knowledge.

In Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction, women masons are breaking gender barriers

How mangrove trees are sowing the seeds of female empowerment in Vietnam

'Water women' quench thirst of central India's parched villages

India, Nepal: Save lives, train women to deal with disasters

Local knowledge and the role of knowledge brokers in India

Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal

Technology can help Afghanistan better manage its natural disasters

Teaching girls to swim can prevent deaths during floods

Professor Mahbuba Nasreen wins Gender and Disaster Award

Step up for disaster risk reduction: appreciate, encourage and empower the female voice

The Makati symposium on the role of women as invisible instruments of resilience

Women’s vital link with the environment

India: Climate change centre for IAS trainees in Mussoorie

Karachi, Pakistan: Flood-affected people training to reduce disaster risk

Rural women in Viet Nam train for a rainy day