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Gender-Blind DRR Blunts Response and Recovery
Advancing gender-transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific
Vera Karikari Bediako
Meet Vera Karikari Bediako, the Principal Programme Officer at the Department of Gender, Government of Ghana.
Women are coordinating and strengthening resilience networks
The Network of Women-led Organisations in Nigeria coordinates and strengthens the collaboration among members and partners, insuring the inclusion of women and girls in programs and projects.
Heat stress management and gender-sensitive heat adaptation plans in Sri Lanka
Data collection in Colombo
How can women’s leadership reduce risks and build resilience?
We asked resilience practitioners, women leaders, gender champions, and experts from around the world why diverse leadership is so important to their work
Women in rural Bangladesh pay more for rising cost of climate disasters
A new kind of drought insurance for women in Kenya’s arid rangelands
Women, low earners ‘prone to disaster-linked depression’
People living in communities affected by disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to experience depression, with women, black Africans and low earners most susceptible, analysis suggests.
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.