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An information market will be organized at the Ba Town Market, Fiji, to celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction, International Day for Rural Women, International World Food Day and International Day for Poverty Eradication. The event will include testimonies from local government, women market vendors and students on their experience with…
On the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction on 13th October 2012, a regional essay competition shall be held among the children in the SAARC region in collaboration with the UNISDR. Objectives The objectives of the competition would be to: To create awareness among the young generation about disaster risk reduction in the SAARC re…
Overall purpose To provide a forum for legislators and decision-makers in national governments and leaders at all levels in formulating gender-responsive legislation and programs related to gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction. Specific objectives a) to understand the phenomenon of climate change, its impacts, and its implications and s…
Background: Women, girls, boys, men, and people of diverse gender identities have distinct vulnerabilities in each context that shape the way that they experience and recover from disaster impacts. Effective disaster risk reduction requires meaningful and diverse participation, engagement, and leadership, through an inclusive and accessible, all-of-soci…
Within the framework of the International Day for Disaster Reduction 2012 celebration, this year devoted to "Women and Girls: The (In) Visible Force Resilience"... And in recognition of the contribution of women and girls before, during and after a disaster, and in all decision making processes around disaster risk reduction and sustainable development…
A three-day workshop in Geneva began work on policy guidelines for mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction (DRR), on 28-30 January. Experts from different backgrounds agreed that there was much common ground between gender mainstreaming in Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Resource Management and DRR, that a gender perspective had not b…
View Meeting Recording HERE Time 8:00 NYC (GMT-4) / 12:00 (GMT) / 19:00 Bangkok (GMT+7) About The seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction took place from 25-27 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia. Preceding the Global Platform, on the 23 and 24 May the Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference and the World Reconstruction Confer…
 The Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Voluntary Stakeholder Group for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab States, the UN Women Regional Office of the Arab States and the Arab Water Council, co-chairs of the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Voluntary Stakeholder Group on Gender, DRR, Climate Change, and Migration in the Arab…
Watch the live eventCo-sponsored by: Australia, Norway, the Philippines, Peru, UNDRR, UNFPA and UN Women.Time13:15-14:30 GMT-5AboutThe “Gender Action Plan to Support Implementation of the Sendai Framework” (Sendai GAP) will be launched in New York on 18 March 2024 in the margins of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68).The de…
The objectives of the High Level Panel Discussion are to: Better illustrate the vulnerabilities and impacts that natural and human-made disasters have on women and girls, which compromise their resilience, while exploring available options for effective gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction and management; Show how migration as a result of (natur…
Purpose The Conference aims to review the progress made and challenges faced in mainstreaming gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction. Special consideration will be given to issues related to climate change adaptation, poverty reduction and community resilience Expected Result: The Beijing Declaration for Action, which will be a set of prioriti…
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13 October 2023
Pasay City
Time16:30 to 18:00 p.m.AboutThe WIN DRR Leadership Awards celebrate women’s leadership and recognize the outstanding achievements of women working in disaster risk reduction across the Asia-Pacific region. With more than 400 nominations received across Asia and the Pacific, a distinguished adjudication panel will select a winner for each of the two awar…
The Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework was called for by the UN General Assembly to “assess progress in integrating disaster risk reduction into policies, programmes and investments at all levels, identify good practice, gaps and challenges and accelerate the path to achieving the goal of the Sendai Framework and its seven global targets by 2030”. E…
ASEAN Region Consultation on the Zero Draft of the Asia-Pacific Action Plan 2021-2024 Background The current regional Action Plan (2018-2021) of the Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is coming to a close and work is underway to develop a new action plan, the Asia-Pacific Action Pla…
In Kenya, disaster losses are increasingly becoming a threat to people’s lives and livelihoods with disaster risk accumulating rapidly overshadowing the Government’s efforts to build resilience and sustainability in most regions. The scale of vulnerability and exposure to hazards and the resulting demand for humanitarian assistance is on the rise and wi…

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