Reports

Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Action Gender inequalities constrain the influence and control that women and girls have over their own lives. Disasters and crises tend to exacerbate pre-existing gender-based discrimination, inequalities, and violence. As a consequence,…

Agenda item Update on recent events Update from Communications and Information Management sub group Strategizing advocacy for upcoming events Update on Capacity Development AOB

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Mainstreaming Gender Equality into Humanitarian Action In May 2016, the World Humanitarian Summit convened a High-Level Leaders’ Roundtable “Women and Girls: Catalyzing Action to Achieve Gender Equality,” recognizing a need to ensure gender equality and the empowerment…

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This publication offers concrete examples and gender perspectives that can be successfully included in interventions before, during and after disasters. Although natural disasters do not discriminate, their impacts are far from gender-neutral. The Sendai Framework for…

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Statistics show that women are disproportionately negatively affected by disasters. As an example, the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Asia, and over 70 percent of…