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Enhancing gender-responsive resilience
How the WRD Policy Tracker drives accountability for inclusive disaster frameworks
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.
Noelene Nabulivou
Meet Noelene Nabulivou, founder of Diverse Voices and Action for Equality or 'DIVA for Equality' in Fiji
Women are coordinating and strengthening resilience networks
The Network of Women-led Organisations in Nigeria coordinates and strengthens the collaboration among members and partners, insuring the inclusion of women and girls in programs and projects.
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
Integrating protective, gender-transformative and inclusive approaches into anticipatory action: snapshots from Nepal
Australia: Domestic violence increase during disasters
Thirty percent of women experience domestic violence in various circumstances but the rate increases during disasters
First come floods, then domestic violence. We need to prepare for the next inevitable crisis.
Gender-disaggregated data, crucial to ensuring gender-sensitive response and recovery for displaced women and girls in disaster contexts
In Bihar, women face floods and increasing violence
Disaggregating disaster deaths data
Ilan confirms the importance of knowing who dies in disasters, how, and why.
Bringing communities together to prepare for emergencies
Rapid gender analysis in Haiti reveals earthquake-related impacts on women and girls
From victims to leaders: ending gender-based violence in the Lake Chad Basin
Nearly 30 per cent of girls in Ngatansou’s home in North Cameroon are married before the age of 18, facing loss of education, high rates of maternal mortality, and increased risk of gender-based violence. Today, at 49, Ngatansou is working to change the narrative for women and girls in the Lake Chad Basin – an area encompassing Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.