Advancing gender-transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific

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.

Women are working together to increase resilience

Seruwaia advocates for knowledge sharing and working together to build resilience.

Women are facilitating community training

“I try to assist the community in the outer islands to build their resilience against climate change by facilitating trainings."

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

Establishing coordination mechanisms and providing capacity development

In Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction, women masons are breaking gender barriers

How mangrove trees are sowing the seeds of female empowerment in Vietnam

'Water women' quench thirst of central India's parched villages

India, Nepal: Save lives, train women to deal with disasters

Local knowledge and the role of knowledge brokers in India

Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal

Technology can help Afghanistan better manage its natural disasters

Teaching girls to swim can prevent deaths during floods

Professor Mahbuba Nasreen wins Gender and Disaster Award

Step up for disaster risk reduction: appreciate, encourage and empower the female voice

The Makati symposium on the role of women as invisible instruments of resilience

Women’s vital link with the environment

India: Climate change centre for IAS trainees in Mussoorie