Gender

This study underscores the significant barriers immigrant women face, including language limitations, limited access to resources, and strong reliance on faith-based coping strategies.

This study examines women’s flood preparedness strategies based on an integrated theoretical approach. It focuses on the North Tongu District, where a recent devastating flood incident led to wide-ranging consequences.

Zambia’s 2024 drought exposed chronic infrastructure, water and sanitation failures in Mazyopa, fuelling a cholera outbreak and disproportionate impacts on women. Community advocacy is now driving demands for long-term resilience investments.

A leadership programme in Fiji found that combining climate resilience training with confidence-building and leadership development can strengthen women’s participation in climate action and support more inclusive, resilient communities.

As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains.

This brief presents the results of a Government of Japan-funded FAO project on ''Enhancing flood management in Uganda with integrated early warning systems to contribute to women, peace and security''.

Between 2023 and 2024, a CDKN-supported initiative in the Lawra and Nandom districts explored how women's climate knowledge could be amplified through culturally familiar communication channels.

UCLA and UC Davis researchers found the strongest associations on very smoky days and in areas with cleaner air overall.

This study investigates the extent to which early warning systems in Bangladesh are disability-inclusive, accessible, and gender-responsive. It examines the lived experiences of people with disabilities and women.

Gender inequality sees women labour in poor quality housing despite soaring temperatures, with solutions limited, expensive and inadequate

This report reveals that supporting First Nations women in fire and land management is a critical, yet untapped, strategy for protecting Australian communities from escalating climate disasters.

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.

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.

Ancestral knowledge combined with climate-smart techniques is boosting food security and increasing family incomes in the Lake Atitlán region.

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.

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 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.

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

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

This review examines how extreme heat affects women’s well-being and highlights everyday adaptation practices across Africa, Asia and Oceania.

This research review, which looks at examples across Oceania, Africa and Asia finds that the people who are forced to adapt to the greatest extent are the ones that climate policies ignore the most.

Women experience heat differently due to physiological, occupational, and socio-economic factors; they cannot be considered an “invisible category” within climate governance

This study investigates whether empowering women can reduce climate vulnerability, and enhance nations’ resilience, readiness and adaptability to climate change.

The nominations for the 2026 Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards are now open.

This issue brief examines how climate change is reshaping internal migration patterns in India, particularly among women and adolescent girls entering informal domestic work in urban centres.

When the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, another crisis quietly grew behind closed doors.

This issue celebrates the 40 years of publication of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management (AJEM).

This paper examines the effects of drought shocks on unintended pregnancies across 18 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This report addresses a critical gap in disaster preparedness in Kenya: early warning systems for floods and droughts that are tailored to the specific needs of the most vulnerable population groups.

UNDRR has formally added an LGBTIQ+ Persons constituency to its Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism to strengthen inclusive disaster risk reduction policy and participation.

When the rains finally came to Nairobi at the beginning of March, many residents were grateful. But then the nightly showers turned torrential, and residents across the city’s informal settlements began to worry.

La evidencia internacional muestra que los impactos del cambio climático y los desastres no son neutrales al género.

This report analyses the extent to which gender considerations are currently integrated into Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) in The Gambia, identifying key challenges and gaps.

This analysis examines how gender is mainstreamed across key Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) related policies and programmes in the Philippines.

This publication brings together voices from the ground and highlights why human mobility in the context of climate change is inherently gendered: social norms and unequal access to resources shape who participates in decision-making.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Durban, South Africa, this article examines how environmental violence, masculinity, and inequality intersect in the context of the 2022 floods.

This study investigates the claim that women are disproportionately more likely to die in disasters by reviewing existing data sources and compiling new datasets on sex-differentiated disaster fatalities in the twenty-first century.

This analysis attempts to map the current climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) policies and programmes, provide diagnoses of systemic gender gaps, and formulate evidence-informed recommendations in Bangladesh.

This publication constitutes a gender analysis of climate and disaster risk finance and insurance in Rwanda.

Practical toolkit guiding gender-transformative approaches to strengthen women’s leadership in climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.

This report examines how strengthening health facilities can enhance disaster risk reduction in the context of climate-driven emergencies, with a focus on safeguarding women’s health.

This analysis observes how existing gender and social inequalities can impact the project activities and how projects can impact the gender dynamics of the work site.