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This collection has been collated by UN Women for the WRD Knowledge Hub, drawing upon the PreventionWeb library. The Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub is an online platform providing consolidated access to data, tools, research, and expertise on the gender dimensions of disasters and threats and gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and resilience.

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Documents and publications
2020

Six months later: Women at the forefront of COVID-19 response in Europe and Central Asia

This publication provides an overview of key results achieved by UN Women in terms of COVID-19 response and recovery in its programme countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia between March and August 2020.

On 13 March 2020, the World Health

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Documents and publications
2020

Think-piece on gender and climate change in the context of COVID-19

COVID-19 is more than a public health crisis. It is a socio-economic crisis and has serious repercussions for the most vulnerable members of our societies, particularly those who are also burdened by climate change.

The EmPower Project with UNEP and UN

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Documents and publications
2020

Review of gender-responsiveness and disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific

This report includes an assessment of the extent to which progress towards the targets of the Sendai Framework has been gender-responsive and disability-inclusive. The guiding research question for the assessment is as follows: how do selected countries

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Documents and publications
2007

The gendered nature of natural disasters: the impact of catastrophic events on the gender gap in life expectancy, 1981–2002

Natural disasters do not affect people equally. In fact, a vulnerability approach to disasters would suggest that inequalities in exposure and sensitivity to risk as well as inequalities in access to resources, capabilities, and opportunities

Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Taylor & Francis online)
Documents and publications
2020

Gender and recovery toolkit: Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in crisis and recovery settings

This Toolkit on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Crisis and Recovery Settings provides guidance on how to enable the leadership of women and girls while making sure that their specific needs are met.
United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme
Documents and publications
2019

Gender and age inequality of disaster risk

To understand disaster risk better, and tackle it effectively and in a gender- and age responsive manner, it is important to delve into the complexities and inequalities in a given location, the differences within and between broad categories of women

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Documents and publications
2020

Gender, climate and security: Sustaining inclusive peace on the frontlines of climate change

This report shows how factors of marginalization combine to leave women and girls with a disproportionate economic burden; how gendered expectations can lead men and women to resort to violence when traditional livelihoods fail
United Nations Environment Programme Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women United Nations Development Programme
Documents and publications
2019

Intersectional approaches to vulnerability reduction and resilience-building

Intersectional approaches recognise that people will have different identities, needs, priorities and capacities which are not static, and will shift and change over time – affecting their ability to prepare for, cope with and respond to natural hazards

Overseas Development Institute Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters
Documents and publications
2017

Understanding cost-effectiveness of gender-aware climate change adaptation intervention in Bangladesh

UN Women undertook this research to test if, along a spectrum of gender-aware design approaches, projects that adopt a more gender-transformative approach are also more cost-effective in achieving climate change adaptation outcomes. The focus of the study

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Documents and publications
2018

Gender equality and women’s empowerment in disaster recovery

This Guidance Note aims to provide action-oriented guidance to local and national government officials and key decision makers who face post-disaster challenges and to assist them in incorporating gender-responsive recovery and reconstruction efforts.
World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the

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