Women Building Resilience

GFDRR’s Inclusive Community Resilience (ICR) program works strategically to increase the level of activities and analytical work that promote models of empowerment —

so that poor communities, women, and marginalized groups drive their own agenda for resilience strengthening and development. As part of these efforts, the ICR program partnered with the Community Practitioners’ Platform and GROTTS/Huairou Commission to document cases where grassroots women have led the charge to strengthen community resilience.

Promoting women’s empowerment in disaster recovery not only contributes to more effective and efficient recovery, it also establishes opportunities for women and communities to shape more sustainable development.

This can often be facilitated through advancements in science and technology that open up new spaces for community-led resilience, but also must be reflected in areas of leadership on the international stage.

The following Resilience Dialogue series took an in-depth look at the intersection of gender, disaster risk, and technology

with a focus on how women-led grassroots efforts in disaster risk management can illuminate a way forward for gender divisions in science, policy, and beyond.