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Gender-responsive strategies and policies incorporate the experiences and needs of women and girls and address the underlying causes of vulnerability including gender inequality, gender relationships, power structures, social norms, and leadership.

If women’s livelihoods are risk and climate-informed, they can withstand, cope and recover from disasters, and women can sustainably maintain or enhance their access and control of resources, capacity, knowledge and assets both now and in the future

Women are first responders and leaders in disaster risk management. For effective disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and resilience, women’s potential needs to be unleashed and their equal leadership supported.

Unequal gender norms, attitudes and practices can affect women’s health-related behaviours and the realization of their rights.

Gender inequality causes women and girls to be negatively and disproportionately impacted by disasters and climate change. It increases their vulnerability and exposure and is a barrier to disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience.

The ability to prepare, respond and recover from disasters depends on a combination of factors including class, caste, gender, age, disability, ethnicity, race, sexuality, nationality, immigration status, geographical location, and religion.

Gender-based violence includes any harmful act—physical, sexual, emotional—perpetrated against a person's will that is based on socially ascribed gender differences between males and females.

Social safety nets are a form of short-term social protection that protect individuals and households from falling back into long-term poverty because of the losses they suffer. Examples include financial products, and cash for work initiatives.