Advancing gender-transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific

Latinas for Climate: meet the young Latinas championing climate justice

As climate-related disasters escalate in frequency and intensity, Latinas for Climate has emerged as a beacon of hope for young Latinas to elevate their voices to influence climate justice at the country, regional and global levels and make a meaningful impact.

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

Mumbai heatwave leaves fewer fish in the sea for women sellers

Integrating protective, gender-transformative and inclusive approaches into anticipatory action: snapshots from Nepal

From where I stand: “Put indigenous women and our communities at the centre of climate action”

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.

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

Rapid gender analysis in Haiti reveals earthquake-related impacts on women and girls

How Bangladesh is beating the odds on climate disaster deaths

Applying a gender lens on post disaster needs assessment in the Caribbean

Kyana shares her experiences of ensuring post disaster needs assessments are gender-responsive and capture the nuanced ways in which disasters affect different groups.

The changing nature of the gender inequality of risk in the Caribbean

Moving beyond the “victim lens” and engaging women more effectively.