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Advancing gender-transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific
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.
Mumbai heatwave leaves fewer fish in the sea for women sellers
Integrating protective, gender-transformative and inclusive approaches into anticipatory action: snapshots from Nepal
African women to play key roles in mitigating impacts of climate change
From where I stand: “Put indigenous women and our communities at the centre of climate action”
Five examples of gender-sensitive solutions to displacement linked with climate change
Women reap the rewards of planting mangroves in Bangladesh
Gender-disaggregated data, crucial to ensuring gender-sensitive response and recovery for displaced women and girls in disaster contexts
Explainer: how gender inequality and climate change are interconnected
Incomes dip for South Asia's women home workers as heat rises
How Bangladesh is beating the odds on climate disaster deaths
How the fisherwomen of Java rise above climate change and an increase in gender-based violence
This case study explores these uneven impacts, the importance of collective active action, and the key role women play in sustainable recovery from Covid-19.