UN Women Official Statement for the APMCDRR2022

UN Women is grateful to the Government of Australia and UNDRR for co-hosting the 2022 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

The Women's Resilience to Disasters programme has been given the green light in Kiribati

Vasiti Soko

Meet Ms. Vasiti Soko, the Director of the National Disaster Management Office of Fiji.

Five examples of gender-sensitive solutions to displacement linked with climate change

Is disaster risk reduction (wo)men’s work?

Highlighting the missing voices of women in developing and implementing legal frameworks for disaster risk reduction

Inaugural women’s leadership awards for disaster risk reduction granted to Fijian trailblazer and Indonesian scientist mobilising youth

Women from Latin America and the Caribbean launch network for disaster risk reduction

Women are using forecasts to plan ahead

"Climate change is happening."

Building an enabling environment for addressing the gender inequalities of risk in Solomon Islands

Establishing coordination mechanisms and providing capacity development

Climate justice means involving gender and sexual minorities in policy and action

A series of workshops in Indonesia and the Philippines have given a platform to LGBTIQ+ leaders

Gender responsive finance interventions are central to tackling climate change

Three reflections on gender in disaster risk management

Latin American, Caribbean ministers commit to build back better and greener

Gender-transformative hurricane resilience during the COVID-19 crisis

The importance of inclusive hurricane preparedness in the Caribbean.

Insights into behaviour during a fire could improve evacuation planning

What governments can do about the increase in family violence due to coronavirus

Can laws tackling gender inequality help to enhance disaster resilience in the Philippines?

Resilience strategy tackles climate change, governance, gender inequality in coastal Mexico