Gender

Each newsletter in this FAO Regional Emergency Office for Southern Africa (REOSA) series for DIPECHO/ECHO Food Security Partners introduces a specific disaster risk reduction (DRR) food security project, presents country updates and upcoming meetings.

Disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific, working paper series no. 24:

This note explores some of the underlying issues that are linked to gender and vulnerability to natural disasters and offers examples of how to address some of these

The impact of disaster varies from region to region and in one region, disasters do not affect the entire community equally. Even in a single community, it affects the male in one way and women in another way, usually in a much worse way, writes M Mizanur Rahman in an op-ed...

Participants were oriented on microfinance opportunities for women, the good practices and experiences of different local government units, the different laws concerning women and techniques on how to face different human security challenges brought about by climate change...

In a nation considered the one of the most vulnerable to natural hazards world-wide, women must be enabled to take on a bigger role in disaster preparedness and response, experts say in a report by IRIN....

This report demonstrates not only how climate change disproportionately affects girls, particularly adolescent girls, but also how girls’ agency is crucial for tackling future challenges of climate change adaptation. It also emphasises the gap in

The findings presented in Plan International's new report, 'Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change', are based on interviews with girls involved in programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, and highlight why their needs should be addressed in climate change and disaster risk reduction policymaking and programming...

This training pack has been written for Oxfam programme staff, partner organizations, and other agencies working in areas associated with DRR. Its purpose is to provide a ‘gender lens’ through which they can plan, implement, and evaluate their work. The