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Heat stress management and gender-sensitive heat adaptation plans in Sri Lanka
Data collection in Colombo
Women in rural Bangladesh pay more for rising cost of climate disasters
From where I stand: “Put indigenous women and our communities at the centre of climate action”
Gender-disaggregated data, crucial to ensuring gender-sensitive response and recovery for displaced women and girls in disaster contexts
Explainer: how gender inequality and climate change are interconnected
How the fisherwomen of Java rise above climate change and an increase in gender-based violence
This case study explores these uneven impacts, the importance of collective active action, and the key role women play in sustainable recovery from Covid-19.
Gender-responsive and disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction in Asia Pacific
How international commitments and recommendations are being translated into national DRR frameworks
Women raise the roof in India
Working with women to design safe, resilient housing solutions
“Women in the communities are active participants in building disaster preparedness”
The importance of women's leadership in disaster preparedness in the Philippines.
“Women play a huge role in the disaster sphere”
Developing capacities for gender-responsive data collection systems.
UN Women helps ease climate risks for women farmers in the mountains of Viet Nam
Women in this mountainous region are getting help to be more climate-resilient
4 assumptions about gender that distort how we think about climate change (and 3 ways to do better)
Women are addressing gender inequalities of disasters including violence against women
“Six to eleven percent of women in ASEAN countries report having been victims of violence against women by a partner in the past 12 months.”
Natural hazards and child marriages: A case study from Bihar
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.