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COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters
Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.
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
Women are helping build resilient infrastructure
Vara's advocacy resulted in a new cyclone resilient market building, so: "when Cyclone Harold came, this market was here. The vendors were safe here."
In Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction, women masons are breaking gender barriers
Nepal: Why more women die in disasters
Women bear the brunt of most disasters in Nepal because the outmigration of men from the countryside.
Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal
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
Domican Republic: women who build resilience
"Nepal one year on, most vulnerable people risk exclusion from earthquake recovery"
World Population Day 2015 more than ever relevant to quake-hit Nepal
APEC: Women lead way in disaster risk reduction in vulnerable Asia-Pacific - Press release
Women entrepreneurs, civil society groups and disaster management and gender equality officials assembled in Sendai