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The Importance of Women in Disaster Risk Reduction

Course

Self-paced e-learning

UN Partner

Offered by

United Nations Institute for Training and Research ( UN Partner )

Women2Lead Community
International Womens Day
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Course details

Level
Introductory
Length
6 hours
Effort
6 hours
Languages
English
Price
Free
Certificate
Yes

Women have an important role to play in disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction. With this UNITAR course, learn how a gender lens is essential for communities to better prepare against disasters.

Topics

SDG
Leave no one behind
Subject
Women in Disaster Risk Reduction
Women2Lead
Women’s leadership
Keywords
disaster risk reduction
Women Leadership
Leave No One Behind
women
leadership

This UNITAR course examines the role of women in disasters and disaster risk reduction using case studies. You will learn about women as leaders for disaster risk reduction, how to look at disasters through a gender lens, how gender and disaster risk reduction are linked, and what it means to Leave No One Behind.

Target Audience

This course is suited to specialists as well as anyone who is interested in the intersections of climate change, gender advocacy, and disaster preparedness and response.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the importance of Women in Disaster Risk Reduction
  • View disasters with a gender lens
  • Describe the link between gender and risk reduction in disaster
  • Define what it means to Leave No One Behind

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