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

This paper aims to provide a framework for gendered health risk assessment and adaptation/mitigation actions in relation to climate change. It provides available information on the differential links between climate change and analyses the health of women

UNISDR is pleased to share its Management Response to the second external evaluation of the secretariat. The Management Response sets out the process and main activities to implement recommendations arising from the evaluation carried out by Dalberg Global Development Advisers. Initiated by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and major UNISDR donors, the evaluation’s purpose was to assess the secretariat’s performance over the last four years and to provide guidance for UNISDR's future direction. The independent report presents 42 recommendations based on 25 findings, which are summarized in five key messages included in the executive summary. > View executive summary > View full report > View management response
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Synthesis of Resident Coordinator annual reports 2008:

This annual synthesis documents the work of the UN development system in countries in support of national development strategies and priorities, such as: (i) supporting disaster risk reduction; (ii)

Working paper 199:

This paper assesses the economics of adaptation to extreme weather events. It focuses on the role of socioeconomic development in increasing climate resilience.

Section 1 contains the introduction. Section 2 provides a summary of

As the Haiti operation moves from rescue to reconstruction, Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam, discusses the major challenges that can be expected to emerge from the process and examines the results of policies applied to earthquake affected zones in the past...
Oxfam - Great Britain
'Gender issues have received little attention because of poor understanding of gendered vulnerabilities and risks to disasters. More efforts need to be made to promote gender-inclusive disaster risk reduction' said Dr Jiko Luveni, head of Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation Ministry...
Fiji Times
The Ministry of Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will conduct a training for trainers for Gender, Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change at Tanoa Plaza today...
Fiji - government

This report demonstrates why water is critical for climate change adaptation and mitigation, and seeks to raise the profile of water in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is divided into six chapters which address

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