Disaster Risk Reduction

This training module, the third in a series of 5, provides the basic information and learning tools needed to understand and advocate for integrating gender perspectives into regional, national and community-level climate change initiatives. It covers the following topics: development context of climate-related disasters; understanding of gender issues and concerns in disaster risk reduction; and tools and methods for understanding gender-based vulnerability and exposure to disaster risk and integrating gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction policy.