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Jamaican women craft vendors get business support
Enhancing resilience when disasters strike
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.
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.
Counting Women in Fiji for risk-informed development
The importance of gender-responsive risk assessments for inclusive development planning
The struggle of a women-led business in Vanuatu
Vanuatu micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are facing parallel disasters
Informing resilience decision making in Grenada and Saint Lucia
Strengthening gender risk and needs data and analysis and use
Korka Diaw
Meet the president of a farmer's network in Senegal, who empowers women and builds climate resilience through agriculture Senegal.
Lessons from the past: protecting women and girls from violence during COVID-19
More attention should be paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.
UNDP strengthens the capacity of Dominica’s female farmers in disaster management
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
Kurigram, Bangladesh: Rural women forging together to deal with multiple crises
Women are addressing gender inequalities of disasters including violence against women
“Six to eleven percent of women in ASEAN countries report having been victims of violence against women by a partner in the past 12 months.”
Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty
Participatory toolkits help rural marginalised communities make their voices heard on climate change
Partnerships for building resilience in the Philippines
Assistance provided to 450 families in waterways communities