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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

Two women Tea Laborers plucking Tea leaves in a Tea Garden in Hatton, Sri Lanka.
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Women hold the solutions to tackling climate change and hunger. Just ask them

When climate change impacts women’s food production and income, it also means less food for men and children. It is long past time for women’s voices to inform strategies for climate adaptation and crisis-response planning.
World Economic Forum
Hurricane Beryl underscores need for urgent action on Disaster Risk Reduction
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UN Women assists rebuilding efforts after Caribbean hurricanes

Relying first on local and women-owned businesses has been a key strategy of UN Women’s response to disasters. This helps reinvigorate local economies and directly supports small and medium enterprise owners as they restore their livelihoods.”
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
An elderly man drinks from a water bottle on a hot day
Research briefs

Older women more vulnerable to heat than their male peers, researchers find

A new study by researchers at Penn State has found that older women are physiologically more vulnerable to high heat and humidity than older men, and that women between the ages of 40 and 64 are as vulnerable as men 65 years of age or older.
Pennsylvania State University
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Documents and publications

Who is more water insecure? Gendered evidence from urban Pakistan

This study examines factors affecting water security in urban Pakistan through a gender lens. They surveyed 560 men and women in two towns in Islamabad and Rawalpindi facing water and sanitation challenges.
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Disaster management in Japan needs a more gender-inclusive approach. Here's why

Japan is beginning to address gender disparities in disaster management through policies and by increasing female representation in disaster response roles, nationally and locally.
World Economic Forum
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Documents and publications

Disaster and gender: Men’s experiences during and after the earthquake

The aim of this study is to discover how men’s first reflex behaviors during earthquakes and how their coping strategies were shaped after earthquakes in Türkiye.
Women walking on a beach carrying baskets on their heads
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Nominate: Women leaders and youth leaders awards

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is launching awards for two categories - women and youth - for their commitment in implementing innovative water solutions.
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
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Gender and disasters: Measures in Kyrgyzstan remain on paper

Measures of protection and adaptation of vulnerable groups remain on paper only and are not being implemented, experts say.
Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting
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