Community Risk Assessment (CRA) with SADDD Approach in selected Union

Year: 2022 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Bangladesh

Community Risk Assessment (CRA) has been conducted in five most climate vulnerable districts of Bangladesh: Kurigram, Jamalpur, Khulna, Satkhira, and Cox’s Bazar. Five disaster risk reduction action...View

Guidelines for Mainstreaming Gender in Inclusive Disaster Management

Year: 2021 Tags: Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Cambodia

Women and girls in Cambodia are among the worst affected by climate changed-induced disasters. Thus, the National Committee on Disaster Management of Cambodia and UN Women saw the need for more gender...View

Empower: Women for Climate Resilient Societies

Year: 2019 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Bangladesh

First released in 2019, this training manual was developed in Bangla and later translated into English. It was created for grassroots level women-led civil society organizations (CSOs) that UN Women...View

Breaking Silos, Building Resilience: Listening to Women-Focused Organisations for Climate Action and Disaster Risk Reduction

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Regional

This report details the discussions from the ‘Virtual Listening Session with Women Focused Organizations on the Asia-Pacific Action Plan 2021–2024’ held on 9 November 2021. Structured around the four...View

Basics of Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policies

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Regional

This paper is a review of gender mainstreaming principles and examples of interventions by countries and organisations in Asia and the Pacific region. It also includes tools and approaches to...View

Integrating Gender in Climate Change and Disaster-related Statistics in Asia and the Pacific: Example Indicators

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Regional

Gender equality is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda. Gender is reflected in numerous SDGs, and their targets and indicators. However, SDGs on climate change, land, and sea and others that relate...View

Climate and Disaster Resilient Infrastructure: Building Resilience to Future Uncertainties and Shocks

Year: 2021 Author(s): Asia-Pacific Issue-Based Coalition (IBC) for Building Resilience Tags: Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Climate Change, Regional

This policy brief aims to enhance understanding of the key features of planning, developing, operating, and maintaining resilient and inclusive infrastructure. This brief highlights the gaps in...View

Training Manual on Gender and Climate Resilience

Year: 2021 Tags: Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Climate Financing, Regional

Globally and nationally, policy makers, scientists, researchers and civil society advocates are working towards developing climate change mitigation and adaptation action plans. Unfortunately, until...

The Only Way Is Up: Monitoring and Encouraging Diverse SOGIESC Inclusion in the Humanitarian and DRR Sectors

Year: 2021 Tags: Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Bangladesh

This report aims to contribute to inclusive humanitarian and disaster risk reduction action. A lack of data, training, and tools lead to the invisibility of the LGBTQI+ community in response...Download

Review of gender-responsiveness and disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific

Year: 2020 Tags: Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Preparedness, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Economic empowerment, Regional

The review of national DRR strategies and action plans included 26 countries in Asia and the Pacific and captured how they translate international commitments and recommendations into national DRR...Download