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

Gender-disaggregated data, crucial to ensuring gender-sensitive response and recovery for displaced women and girls in disaster contexts

Disaggregating disaster deaths data

Ilan confirms the importance of knowing who dies in disasters, how, and why.

Rapid gender analysis in Haiti reveals earthquake-related impacts on women and girls

“Women play a huge role in the disaster sphere”

Developing capacities for gender-responsive data collection systems.

Counting Women in Fiji for risk-informed development

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

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.”

People matter – Why quantifying inclusion is key to climate adaptation

The Women’s Resilience to Disasters Knowledge Hub

The importance of quality data and evidence to inform and transform resilience building.

COVID-19 will widen poverty gap between women and men, new data shows

Women may be more vulnerable to climate change but data absent

Data drives dividends

Connecting with the people beyond the computers: my experience in flood risk management in Buenos Aires