Gender

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.

Latest Gender additions in the Knowledge Base

International Women's Day is an opportunity to highlight how, unless significant action is taken, climate injustices towards women will only continue, Salomé Lehtman writes.
Flood Resilience Portal
For over two decades, Abia Akram has been a leading and vocal advocate for the rights of women with disabilities, in more than 30 countries, especially in the context of gender justice, financing for development, and inclusive DRR.
A Vietnamese school girl bikes through the flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh wearing her school uniform.
As a member of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, Plan International is working with women in Quang Tri, Vietnam, to bridge this gender gap and empowering them to take on leadership roles within their communities towards a more resilient future.
Flood Resilience Portal
Due to prevalent gender roles, women usually assume responsibility for caring for minors, the elderly and people with disabilities, which is why they spend more time in private homes, which are generally more precarious than public buildings.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
At the time of International Women’s Day, IRDR conducted a small survey among the female IRDR Young Scientists regarding the challenges they face and their perspectives of solutions.
UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
Jute- the golden fibre, women working at the jute harvest in a field, sorting the stalks.
On International Women’s Day, we give a preview of the main messages of the Gender Action Plan to Support Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which will be launched later this month.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
A woman waters maize seedlings on a hillside farm in Tierra Blanca, Guatemala
From Bolivia to Zambia, the World Food Programme is giving women the tools to cope with weather extremes that threaten livelihoods.
World Food Programme
Two women Tea Laborers plucking Tea leaves in a Tea Garden in Hatton, Sri Lanka.
The newly released FAO report, The Unjust Climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth, sheds light on how climate change disproportionately affects the rural poor.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters

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