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.  

Women are using forecasts to plan ahead

"Climate change is happening."

Women are central actors in building disaster resilience

“Our ability to adapt is what resilience is all about. Being resilient can help us overcome hardship.”

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?

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

From loss to leadership in Brazil

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

Jamaican women craft vendors get business support

Enhancing resilience when disasters strike

Collaboration between gender equality and climate change in Côte d’Ivoire

Ministers meet in Côte d’Ivoire to launch an integrated approach to climate change and gender equality in development planning

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

Building an enabling environment for addressing the gender inequalities of risk in Solomon Islands

Establishing coordination mechanisms and providing capacity development

The aftermath of disasters in Solomon Islands

Strengthening gender focus

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.

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.