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Designing, resourcing and implementing gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes. raising awareness of gendered vulnerabilities of men, women and LGBTs, and promoting inclusion and leadership of women and gender minorities in DRR.

The Gender Action Plan to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP) has been launched. The Sendai GAP identifies nine key objectives related to the four priorities of the Sendai Framework, and 33 recommended actions promote gender equality and the empowerment and leadership of women and gender stakeholders in disaster risk reduction. Access the GAP

Disaster preparedness, response and recovery services should be uniformly available to all.

Latest Gender additions in the Knowledge Base

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Three women walking in Beira, Mozambique
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Climate change is not just threatening coastal women's incomes, but also their food security, cultural practices and social identities. Yet their voices remain largely absent from ocean governance.

World Resources Institute
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Biologically, women’s greater risk comes down to two things: the natural rise and fall of our hormone levels and our body's response to heat, which are different to men's, Dr Arif said.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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Ancestral knowledge combined with climate-smart techniques is boosting food security and increasing family incomes in the Lake Atitlán region.

Climate Home News
First Nations women in fire: a vital opportunity to boost the workforce and increase community safety thumbnail
Documents and publications

The report draws attention to Australia’s workforce of First Nations women in fire and land management, and highlights the profound positive impacts that culturally responsive professional development programs can have on this cohort.

Natural Hazards Research Australia
Labourers sit under tagaris (a pan to carry loads like soil) to protect themselves against the scorching sun, as they work at a site in Beawar.
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A landmark global economic analysis, paired with a state-of-the-art heat solution cost-benefit calculator covering 11,408 cities worldwide, shows that investing in heat action saves billions in losses.

HERA (Climate Resilience for All)
Children of slum women sit in a group on the floor at a Delhi daycare.
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HERA and its partners launched HERA Materna, the world’s first ever heat-pregnancy insurance program. Extreme heat is threatening pregnant women on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and until now no financial protection has existed to shield them.

HERA (Climate Resilience for All)
Women and climate adaptation in rural sub-Saharan Africa: constraints and research priorities thumbnail
Documents and publications

This brief reviews the empirical evidence on the barriers women face in adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A

World Bank, the
Advancing gender-transformative action in human mobility in the context of climate change thumbnail
Documents and publications

This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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