The Importance of Women in Disaster Risk Reduction
Women have an important role to play in disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction. With this UNITAR course, learn how a gender lens is essential for communities to better prepare against disasters.
This UNITAR course examines the role of women in disasters and disaster risk reduction using case studies. You will learn about women as leaders for disaster risk reduction, how to look at disasters through a gender lens, how gender and disaster risk reduction are linked, and what it means to Leave No One Behind. This course is suited to specialists as well as anyone who is interested in the intersections of climate change, gender advocacy, and disaster preparedness and response.