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.

Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls

Meet Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, the Regional Representative of the Shifting the Power Coalition in Fiji.

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.

Benin: Impact des changements climatiques sur les services en santé de reproduction

Women are providing critical support during the COVID-19 outbreak

Jannatul and her team are supporting women and girls to cope with simultaneous hazards.

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

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.

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