Connecting gender, the private sector, and disaster risk management

A need for gender-responsive disaster risk management in the private sector.

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.

Korka Diaw

Meet the president of a farmer's network in Senegal, who empowers women and builds climate resilience through agriculture Senegal.

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

Walk a mile in her shoes: Building rural women’s climate-resilience in the wake of COVID-19

The UN Women’s multi-hazard approach to disaster risk resilience in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Confronting the impacts of multiple hazards in a gender-responsive manner

Cabo Verde: Solar panels help communities adapt to drought

Growing rice and resilience with women in Mali

Gender research in IPM: Women’s empowerment as a key to unlocking food security

Men and women farmers in Benin are responding differently to climate change

Sierra Leone: Women help minimise risk of flooding

For more food and more resilience, turn to women

Togo fishing community thrives after canal revitalization ends frequent flooding

Mitigating the impacts of desertification and drought

Oroukia and the Red Cross create an oasis of hope in the Sahel

Rural women in Peru key to adaptation of seeds to climate change

CARE and Cornell University launch partnership to advance sustainable food systems

'A new drumbeat in the Sahel' - Groundswell International