Enhancing gender-responsive resilience

How the WRD Policy Tracker drives accountability for inclusive disaster frameworks

Vera Karikari Bediako

Meet Vera Karikari Bediako, the Principal Programme Officer at the Department of Gender, Government of Ghana.

Vasiti Soko

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

Gender in DRR - Mainstreamed into invisibility

Does gender mainstreaming make it more difficult to ensure women’s concerns are addressed?

Heat stress management and gender-sensitive heat adaptation plans in Sri Lanka

Data collection in Colombo

Gender-disaggregated data, crucial to ensuring gender-sensitive response and recovery for displaced women and girls in disaster contexts

Disaggregating disaster deaths data

Ilan confirms the importance of knowing who dies in disasters, how, and why.

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

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.

Gender inequality, earthquake and flood impacts in Albania

Taking into account women’s needs in recovery planning

“Women play a huge role in the disaster sphere”

Developing capacities for gender-responsive data collection systems.

The aftermath of disasters in Solomon Islands

Strengthening gender focus

Counting Women in Fiji for risk-informed development

The importance of gender-responsive risk assessments for inclusive development planning

Informing resilience decision making in Grenada and Saint Lucia

Strengthening gender risk and needs data and analysis and use

Women are addressing gender inequalities of disasters including violence against women

“Six to eleven percent of women in ASEAN countries report having been victims of violence against women by a partner in the past 12 months.”

People matter – Why quantifying inclusion is key to climate adaptation

Participatory toolkits help rural marginalised communities make their voices heard on climate change

The Women’s Resilience to Disasters Knowledge Hub

The importance of quality data and evidence to inform and transform resilience building.