1. Home
  2. Knowledge Base
  3. Themes
  4. human development

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

Cover
Documents and publications

Climate change risk for LGBT people in the United States

This report provides some of the first empirical documentation as to how LGBT people differentially experience the negative effects of climate change compared to non-LGBT people.
Update

Why are LGBTQ+ people more at risk from climate change?

Disasters caused by climate change can adversely affect LGBTQ+ people already suffering from poverty and discrimination.
Context
Update

How to confront gender-based violence in a warming world

Rising temperatures have an impact on mental health and human behavior, and evidence has shown that warmer temperatures correlate with a 4% increase in interpersonal violence and a 14% rise in intergroup conflicts globally.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
A crowd of women gather for a border ceremony in Lahore, Pakistan
Update

Safeguarding women’s health in the face of rising temperatures

Extreme heat has disparate impacts on women's health and broader socio-economic consequences. There is an urgent need for gender-responsive adaptation strategies.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
SAR Region: Beneficiaries of agriculture and disaster risk reduction project in Bangladesh
Update

New guidelines launched to protect children and pregnant women from heat stress in Bangladesh

As the country reels from a suffocating heatwave, Directorate General of Health Services, with UNICEF support, launch guidelines to respond to heat-related risks such as preterm birth and severe heat stress in young children.
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
A Senegalese woman harvests crop from her farm
Update

Race to resilience in action: Strengthening climate resilience in Senegal through digital agricultural finance

In Senegal, the impact of climate change is acutely felt across its vast agricultural landscapes, where smallholder farmers – many of whom are women – face increasing vulnerability due to erratic weather patterns.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Dr. Tavida Kamolvej
Interview

Dr. Tavida Kamolvej: “Every country has to realize that disaster risk reduction has to be integrated every step of the way”

Tavida Kamolvej is is the Deputy Governor of Bangkok. She worked for 20+ years as a disaster specialist, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University and is a well-known Thai public policy professional.
Cover
Documents and publications

Gendered impacts of heat waves and drought in Asia and the Pacific: A review in the context of el niño

This policy brief examines the impacts of heat waves and drought on women’s food security, economic productivity, and care work, and highlights the alarming occurrence of gender-based and sexual violence during climate-induced challenges.

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).