What is gender inequality costing the Caribbean region?

Countries in the Caribbean are recovering from a recent volcanic eruption, coping with COVID-19, and preparing for the hurricane season. This case study highlights the work of the EnGenDER Project and the gender inequality studies carried out across eight countries to date.

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.

The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis for women and girls in particular

Wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy increases preterm birth risk, Stanford study finds

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

Providing vouchers to respond to the urgent needs of economically vulnerable families and women in Palestine

COVID-19 has increased the risk of gender-based violence

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

The case for equity to reduce disaster risk: an analysis of Bolivia

Germany: Inaction on heat plans threatens health

Strengthening disaster recovery in the Caribbean using a gender lens

“Women play a huge role in the disaster sphere”

Developing capacities for gender-responsive data collection systems.

What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change

Investing in the lives and livelihoods of India's women during recovery

Post-disaster recovery provides an important opportunity to invest in the lives and livelihoods of women in order to build forward better and increase resilience.

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.