UN Joint Study on women’s empowerment and leadership in disaster risk reduction
Client
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Duration
2021
Our project team
Mary Picard
Rosanna Drew
Type of work
Research and analysis
Reports and editing
Strategic and policy planning
Stakeholder engagement
Key themes
Capacity building
Climate adaptation and resilience
Disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI)
Organisational development
Stakeholder consultations
About this project
This report asks what needs to change in the approach of the United Nations system as a whole to make significant practical progress on gender equality in disaster risk reduction by 2030.
HDC provided senior consultant, Dr. Mary Picard, and consultant, Rosanna Drew, to research and draft a United Nations Joint Study on Gender Equality and Women’s Leadership in DRR.
Key project elements were: working to a joint UN committee consisting of UNDRR, UNFPA and UN Women; desk research on the literature and existing UN system policies; key informant interviews, designing and administering online surveys of UN system agencies and their analysis; public non-UN stakeholder surveys and analysis; drafting the report and formulating recommendations for the UN system in collaboration with the oversight committee.