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Focus on women and girls matters as disaster risks shift
Riyanti Djalante (ASEAN Secretariat) and Mohammad Naciri (UN Women Asia and the Pacific) share their insights into the importance of regional cooperation for gender-responsive disaster management and progress to date.
Inaugural women’s leadership awards for disaster risk reduction granted to Fijian trailblazer and Indonesian scientist mobilising youth
Women from Latin America and the Caribbean launch network for disaster risk reduction
Women are building the capacities of others to reduce risks
Goundo is working to build women’s capacity to secure their environmental rights and protects their nature-based livelihoods.
Fatoumata Goundo Sissoko
Meet Goundo, who is dedicated to building women's capacity in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, capitalising on existing skills and knowledge.
Extreme weather events in India made women, children more vulnerable to modern slavery, flags report
Providing vouchers to respond to the urgent needs of economically vulnerable families and women in Palestine
COVID-19 has increased the risk of gender-based violence
Building women's resilient businesses in Vanuatu
Can an island rise and recover from a cyclone swell through targeted support to women’s owned businesses?
Collaboration between gender equality and climate change in Côte d’Ivoire
Ministers meet in Côte d’Ivoire to launch an integrated approach to climate change and gender equality in development planning
Building an enabling environment for addressing the gender inequalities of risk in Solomon Islands
Establishing coordination mechanisms and providing capacity development
Disasters caused by natural hazards linked to increase in triggers for violence against women and girls
Lessons from the past: protecting women and girls from violence during COVID-19
More attention should be paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.
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.”