Empowerment of Women and Girls in DRR Policy and Implication to Resilience

Global warming has been a global public health concern, especially for vulnerable and underserved communities. Women and girls are often disproportionately impacted by global warming due to gender-specific inequities. Although the Paris Agreement on Climate Change seeks to limit the global temperature rise to 2 °C (and strives towards a rise of 1.5 °C), some communities have already been impacted by global warming and climate change. Similarly, the Sendai Framework has adopted a disaster risk management approach that aims to broadly strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters, emphasizing the need for dovetailing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts. Women and girls, as agents of positive change, must be included in all efforts to combat gender inequality, climate change. This chapter will highlight some of the key issues with examples from Turkiye.