Disaster Risk Reduction

Women’s Increased Resilience and Empowerment against Disasters (WIRED) and Empowering Poor Women and Men in Building Resilient and Adaptive Communities in Mindanao (EMBRACE)

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Assessing Vulnerabilities of Women and Children, Exposed to Disaster: The Philippine Experience

The data were presented by Ms. Lina V. Castro, Interim Deputy National Statistician of the Philippine Statistics Authority during the Fifth Global Forum on Gender Statistics held in Aguascalientes, Mexico on November 3-5, 2014. The presentation focused on the assessment of the vulnerabilities of women and children in line with Typhoon Haiyan. Asset Type: Publications …

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Role of Women in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

This aims to make a gender-sensitive DRR that can effectively deliver women from persistent vulnerability and gender inequality, and empower them fully to make their families, homes and community livelihoods disaster-resilient. It can change if we do not miss or ignore gender issues in designing and implementing disaster risk reduction and management programs. The role …

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