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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.
Vasiti Soko
Meet Ms. Vasiti Soko, the Director of the National Disaster Management Office of Fiji.
Women in rural Bangladesh pay more for rising cost of climate disasters
A new kind of drought insurance for women in Kenya’s arid rangelands
Women, low earners ‘prone to disaster-linked depression’
People living in communities affected by disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to experience depression, with women, black Africans and low earners most susceptible, analysis suggests.
Integrating protective, gender-transformative and inclusive approaches into anticipatory action: snapshots from Nepal
Bringing communities together to prepare for emergencies
How Bangladesh is beating the odds on climate disaster deaths
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."
Alluvione: Girl power to combat floods in Indonesia
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.
Women are using forecasts to plan ahead
"Climate change is happening."
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."