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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.
From victims to leaders: ending gender-based violence in the Lake Chad Basin
Women are giving hope to women
Aissa's organisation provides psychological support to women and girls affected by conflict, crisis and disaster, as well as gender-based violence, teaching them to address trauma and mediate conflict.
From victims to leaders: ending gender-based violence in the Lake Chad Basin
Nearly 30 per cent of girls in Ngatansou’s home in North Cameroon are married before the age of 18, facing loss of education, high rates of maternal mortality, and increased risk of gender-based violence. Today, at 49, Ngatansou is working to change the narrative for women and girls in the Lake Chad Basin – an area encompassing Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
Women are adapting to climate change through climate-smart agriculture
"Understanding climate change has drastically changed the way we work the land."
Building forward through innovative financing for gender equality in the Caribbean
The growing need for gender-responsive financing.
Connecting gender, the private sector, and disaster risk management
A need for gender-responsive disaster risk management in the private sector.
Benin: Impact des changements climatiques sur les services en santé de reproduction
Cultivating change: women farmers in Dominica find new paths to market amidst COVID-19 shutdowns
Women farmers have recently suffered significant loss of income as a result of overlapping disasters. This case study explores how women farmers are being connected to new outlets and market opportunities and supported to do more business online.
Korka Diaw
Meet the president of a farmer's network in Senegal, who empowers women and builds climate resilience through agriculture Senegal.
Lessons from the past: protecting women and girls from violence during COVID-19
More attention should be paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.
UNDP strengthens the capacity of Dominica’s female farmers in disaster management
How climate finance can address violence against women and girls
Walk a mile in her shoes: Building rural women’s climate-resilience in the wake of COVID-19
In CAR, violence against women is surging amid COVID-19 pandemic, study finds
Domestic violence growing in wake of coronavirus outbreak
The UN Women’s multi-hazard approach to disaster risk resilience in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Confronting the impacts of multiple hazards in a gender-responsive manner