Beyond vulnerability to gender equality and women’s empowerment and leadership in disaster risk reduction – Critical actions for the United Nations System
Client
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Duration
April 2021 - June 2021
Our project team
Mary Picard
Rosanna Drew
Type of work
Organisational development
Research and analysis
Reports and editing
Stakeholder engagement
Strategic planning
Key themes
Climate change
Disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Early warning systems (EWS)
Gender equality and social inclusion (GESI)
Gender responsiveness
About this project
The problem of gender inequality in development, including disaster risk reduction is a recognised challenge. Competing issues that exacerbate gender inequalities like climate change and disasters require gender-responsive management.
This report aims to begin a conversation about how the United Nations can make gender equality more than a written goal in global disaster frameworks such as the Sendai Framework, and actively include gender equality in disaster risk reduction.
The report asks what needs to change in the approach of the United Nations system as a whole, and for each individual entity, to make significant practical progress on this issue at the national and local level by 2030. It addresses the role of the United Nations in joining up the discourses on gender equality and disaster and climate resilience, in demonstrating an institutional commitment to gender equality, investment in expertise for gender analysis and practice of gender-responsiveness.