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Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (2021)
“Natural hazards, such as floods, droughts and earthquakes, are gender neutral – but their impacts are not,” according to this blog. Even men and women, boys and girls from the same household experien...
Rethinking Social Protection in South Asia: Toward Progressi...
This blog discusses the unprecedented combination of negative shocks impacting South Asia in recent years and the need to smooth these in a way that leaves no one behind. It highlights this report, wh...
What is the Sendai Gender Action Plan? (2024)
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) remains the keystone international policy for DRR. This blog celebrates the recent launch of the Framework’s Gender Action Plan (the Sendai...
Gender-Transformative Social Protection in Crisis Contexts: ...
Want to learn more about gender-responsive social protection in crisis contexts? This guidance note looks at how social protection instruments and systems can support gender equality and women’s empow...
Humanitarian Research Toolkit
Interested in the ethics of conducting research in the aftermath of natural disasters or in fragile and conflict-affected contexts? This humanitarian research toolkit provides guidelines for minimizin...
UNDP Gender and Recovery Toolkit
Need tips on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in crisis and recovery settings? This toolkit presents entry points and innovative practices, backed up by data, indicators, and exp...
Crop Choice, Drought, and Gender: New Insights from Smallhol...
This study finds that women allocate disproportionately more land out of subsistence and into income-generating crops after a drought. Using a novel weather shock measure that combines spatial rainfal...
Stress Testing Adaptive Social Protection Systems in the Sah...
Adaptive social protection (ASP) schemes, which integrate fundamental social protection with disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change, are increasingly used to prevent or mitigate the...
Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction: Examples from...
This report draws on 25 case studies to document gender mainstreaming in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and lessons learned. The case studies examine impacts and results, good practices, and potential ...
Gendered Experience of Disaster: Women's Account of Evacuati...
Presenting a qualitative analysis of the experiences of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, this paper focuses on how socioeconomic factors, such as citizenship, ...
Do Catastrophic Floods Change the Gender Division of Labor? ...
This report combines time allocation data from the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Surveys (2012-2014) with village-level flood depth data from satellite imagery to understand labor impacts from floodi...
Do Marriage Markets Respond to a Natural Disaster? The Impac...
“Since marriage is almost universal and divorce still an anomaly in South Asia, age at marriage is one of the most important determinants of women’s and their children’s well-being,” begins this study...