COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters

Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.

Women reap the rewards of planting mangroves in Bangladesh

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

Gender inequality, earthquake and flood impacts in Albania

Taking into account women’s needs in recovery planning

UNDP strengthens the capacity of Dominica’s female farmers in disaster management

In Central America, women and girls bear the brunt of storm disaster fallout

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

Gender-transformative hurricane resilience during the COVID-19 crisis

The importance of inclusive hurricane preparedness in the Caribbean.

Nepal: Why more women die in disasters

Women bear the brunt of most disasters in Nepal because the outmigration of men from the countryside.

The gender and age dimensions of a hurricane in Dominica

Gender and age inequality of disaster risk

India: As climate change grows more intense, women in battered coastal Odisha step up

Building towards people-centric early warning systems in the Caribbean

Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal

Women at the helm of cyclone recovery efforts in Tonga

Bracing for climate change in Bangladesh: Safeguarding development in a warming world

Lessons learnt from 2017 Caribbean Hurricane Season

The Caribbean is moving closer to a much-needed regional strategy to strengthen people-centred early warning systems across the islands

With warning drums and river clean-ups, Indonesian women head off disasters

Women often suffer worst when floods or earthquakes hit - but given the right resources, they are well-placed to protect their communities

In the Caribbean, colonialism and inequality mean hurricanes hit harder