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

Digital and urban frontiers: girls in a changing landscape:

This book addresses cities and cyberspace as rapidly growing areas where girls will be at risk but where opportunities abound. It focuses on adolescent girls – girls who are at a particularly

Food security in Andhara Pradesh, India:

This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. The study, carried out by an international team led by

This year's theme: My City is Getting Ready! To mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction, the UNISDR secretariat is calling on its partners to play a more active role to protect cities against disasters. Many cities have been disrupted this year by disasters: earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand; floods and heavy rainfalls in Pakistan, Eastern Europe, Mozambique and other parts of Africa; forest fires in Russia; and volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and Iceland. All have caused huge human suffering and economic damage. Cities have never been so at risk.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia

This document presents the review of disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives implemented by Oxfam in four urban contexts of the Caribbean (Tabarre and Cap Haitian, Haiti; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Georgetown, Guyana). It discusses themes

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Experts are urging governments and aid agencies to pursue the MDGs and development policies in coordination with progress on disaster risk reduction 'for communities to better cope during disasters' reports Reuters...
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This overview highlights projects supporting measures that minimize climate change damage by reducing the risk, or the adverse effects, of climate change, through support to LDCs, advancing achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and supporting

Policy Research Working Paper 5342:

This paper asserts that educating young women may be one of the best climate change disaster prevention investments in addition to high social rates of return in overall sustainable development goals. The authros

The report outlines lessons learned from various countries delivering on poverty-environment efforts, the evolution of the PEI programmatic approach at the country level, and technical support provided in specific areas, such as the long-term impacts of

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