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Gender-responsive needs assessments estimate damages and losses after a disaster and identify needs in a sex, age and disability disaggregated manner. They identify pre-existing inequalities to support increased resilience and “building back better”

Gender-responsive risk assessments enable the development of appropriate mitigation measures for implementing safe and sustainable programmes. They outline risks, vulnerabilities and the probability and impact of risk in a sex disaggregated manner.

Data disaggregated by sex, age, and disability enables targeted and more effective disaster risk reduction programming by capturing differing needs, vulnerabilities, and capacities of women and girls and enhancing understanding of intersectionality.

The region has been experiencing recurring droughts as well as the impacts of hurricanes and floods. Water shortages, crop failures and income loss lead people to migrate to cities or across borders.

Examples of best practice in drought management from around the world.