Enhancing gender-responsive resilience

How the WRD Policy Tracker drives accountability for inclusive disaster frameworks

UN Women and the Youth Leaders and Young Professionals (YLYP) Network host event highlighting the role of youth and digital technology for women’s resilience

In the lead up to CSW67, youth activists advanced their key asks related to digital technology to build women's and girls' resilience to disasters

Vasiti Soko

Meet Ms. Vasiti Soko, the Director of the National Disaster Management Office of Fiji.

Gender in DRR - Mainstreamed into invisibility

Does gender mainstreaming make it more difficult to ensure women’s concerns are addressed?

Heat stress management and gender-sensitive heat adaptation plans in Sri Lanka

Data collection in Colombo

Women, low earners ‘prone to disaster-linked depression’

People living in communities affected by disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to experience depression, with women, black Africans and low earners most susceptible, analysis suggests.

Floods in South Africa: protecting people must include a focus on women and girls

When disastrous events like floods are combined with social inequities, their effects are much greater.

Leaders call for collective action, elevating marginalized voices and women in decision making roles beyond COVID-19

During the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), UN Women hosted a side event entitled “Beyond COVID-19: Advancing gender responsive policies on climate, care and jobs for a sustainable and equal future”.

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: Why women need to be at the heart of climate action

Disaggregating disaster deaths data

Ilan confirms the importance of knowing who dies in disasters, how, and why.

Bringing communities together to prepare for emergencies

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

Varanisese Maisamoa

Meet Varanisese Maisamoa, who is helping increase women's access to resilient infrastructure in Fiji.

Women are adapting to climate change through climate-smart agriculture

"Understanding climate change has drastically changed the way we work the land."

The changing nature of the gender inequality of risk in the Caribbean

Moving beyond the “victim lens” and engaging women more effectively.

Gender-responsive and disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction in Asia Pacific

How international commitments and recommendations are being translated into national DRR frameworks