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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

Indian woman with her child on the street New Delhi
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Gender disparities in heat wave mortality in India

Researchers investigate how extreme temperatures affect men and women differently, highlighting greater risks for women due to social and physiological factors
University of Michigan
Indian woman holding a water recipient on her head in the desert
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Up to 30 percent more time: Climate change makes it harder for women to collect water

By 2050, climate change could increase the amount of time women in households without running water spend collecting water by up to 30 percent on global average, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Documents and publications

Do disasters always increase intimate partner violence? Evidence from the 2018 Earthquake in Papua New Guinea

This paper examines how an earthquake in Papua New Guinea changed people’s attitudes about and the prevalence of intimate partner violence.
Three Indian female textile workers standing together in solidarity at factory
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Why we need gender-responsive climate finance

Providing climance financing tailored to meet the needs and priorities of women and girls, as well as addressing the root causes of gender inequality, has multiplier effect of supporting development and reducing the impacts of the climate crisis.
Girls' Globe
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HIV risk rises as climate disasters push African women to sell sex

African climate disasters are pushing more women into transactional sex and increasing the risk of HIV.
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Indigenous Fijian girl walking on flooded land in Fiji
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A climate crisis is a gender equality crisis: Life on small island states in the Pacific

Each and every climate-related disaster poses a risk to people's lives, livelihoods, homes, safety and access to services. This risk is not gender-neutral.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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Educational materials

WE Storybook: Climate adaptation championship

A knowledge product of the uplift phase of the Climate Adaptation Championship featuring 16 local stories across diverse demographics focused on water scarcity and flooding experiences in grassroots communities highlighting Gender and Climate Change.
Young woman wearing a traditional scarf on her head attends a public event in Northern Mozambique
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Women are 14 times more likely to die in a climate disaster than men. It’s just one way climate change is gendered

A growing body of evidence demonstrates women and gender-diverse people are disproportionately vulnerable to the changing climate and the consequences it brings.
Conversation Media Group, the

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