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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN)
To understand disaster risk better, and tackle it effectively and in a gender- and age responsive manner, it is important to delve into the complexities and inequalities in a given location, the differences within and between broad categories of women, men, boys and girls, taking a context-specific and intersectional approach. This study explores the connection between gender and age inequality and disaster risk, examining evidence at a global level, and in three case study
countries (Nepal, Malawi, and Dominica).
The key findings of this research are (p. 5):
In order to reduce gender and age inequalities in disaster, there is a need for better understanding of differential impact, which needs to be underpinned by gender and age inequality informed data. This shift will require, among others (p. 6):
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