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COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters
Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.
Floods in South Africa: protecting people must include a focus on women and girls
When disastrous events like floods are combined with social inequities, their effects are much greater.
Risk, resilience and gender in the current Petrópolis tragedy
Women are more vulnerable to disasters because of their social roles, lack of access to resources and political marginalisation.
Gender inequality, earthquake and flood impacts in Albania
Taking into account women’s needs in recovery planning
From loss to leadership in Brazil
Women tackle local risk in flood-prone Rio de Janeiro community
Women more likely than men to suffer psychological distress from having their homes flooded
Natural hazards and child marriages: A case study from Bihar
Nepal: Why more women die in disasters
Women bear the brunt of most disasters in Nepal because the outmigration of men from the countryside.
The gender and age dimensions of floods and drought in Malawi
Understanding the gender and age inequalities of risk
Disaster risk reduction: Avoiding the inevitable
We can’t rid Asia of natural disasters. But we can prepare for them
Building towards people-centric early warning systems in the Caribbean
Pakistan: National Disaster Management Act 2010 amended to cover women and children in catastrophes
Bracing for climate change in Bangladesh: Safeguarding development in a warming world
Lessons learnt from 2017 Caribbean Hurricane Season
The Caribbean is moving closer to a much-needed regional strategy to strengthen people-centred early warning systems across the islands
With warning drums and river clean-ups, Indonesian women head off disasters
Women often suffer worst when floods or earthquakes hit - but given the right resources, they are well-placed to protect their communities