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Enhancing gender-responsive resilience
How the WRD Policy Tracker drives accountability for inclusive disaster frameworks
Empowering Female Entrepreneurs: Overcoming Climate Change Challenges
Climate change is an urgent global challenge that demands immediate action. Its impact is felt across various aspects of our lives, from extreme weather events to the depletion of biodiversity and rising sea levels.
Vani Vakatalai: Leading Women in the Community
Vani Vakatalai, District Officer for Tavua in the Ministry of Rural & Maritime Development & Disaster Management, participated in the National Emergency Response Team (NERT) training organized by the Fiji Government, National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and supported by the Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Programme.
COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters
Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.
RISE 2030: Women for results
The first all-women solar team in Lebanon challenges the gender stereotypes in the male-dominated construction sector
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
Mumbai heatwave leaves fewer fish in the sea for women sellers
Integrating protective, gender-transformative and inclusive approaches into anticipatory action: snapshots from Nepal
Leaders call for collective action, elevating marginalized voices and women in decision making roles beyond COVID-19
During the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), UN Women hosted a side event entitled “Beyond COVID-19: Advancing gender responsive policies on climate, care and jobs for a sustainable and equal future”.
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
Five ways to build gender equality and sustainability
Incomes dip for South Asia's women home workers as heat rises
Disaggregating disaster deaths data
Ilan confirms the importance of knowing who dies in disasters, how, and why.