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.

Five ways to build gender equality and sustainability

How can we make disaster risk financing more gender inclusive?

Varanisese Maisamoa

Meet Varanisese Maisamoa, who is helping increase women's access to resilient infrastructure in Fiji.

Women are adapting to climate change through climate-smart agriculture

"Understanding climate change has drastically changed the way we work the land."

Building forward through innovative financing for gender equality in the Caribbean

The growing need for gender-responsive financing.

Women raise the roof in India

Working with women to design safe, resilient housing solutions

“Women in the communities are active participants in building disaster preparedness”

The importance of women's leadership in disaster preparedness in the Philippines.

Women are improving their access to resilient infrastructure

Esther, who works with the Red Cross, is helping communities in Kiribati build forward better.  

From loss to leadership in Brazil

Women tackle local risk in flood-prone Rio de Janeiro community

Building women's resilient businesses in Vanuatu

Can an island rise and recover from a cyclone swell through targeted support to women’s owned businesses?

Jamaican women craft vendors get business support

Enhancing resilience when disasters strike

Counting Women in Fiji for risk-informed development

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

Women are helping build resilient infrastructure

Vara's advocacy resulted in a new cyclone resilient market building, so: "when Cyclone Harold came, this market was here. The vendors were safe here."

Informing resilience decision making in Grenada and Saint Lucia

Strengthening gender risk and needs data and analysis and use

UN Women helps ease climate risks for women farmers in the mountains of Viet Nam

Women in this mountainous region are getting help to be more climate-resilient

Cash handouts provide lifeline to vulnerable women in Viet Nam facing double impact of pandemic and flooding

Cash handouts provide lifeline to vulnerable women in Viet Nam facing double impact of pandemic and flooding