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WRC5 | Addressing Recovery Needs of Women & Girls, People with Disabilities, Other Vulnerable Groups



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The session will highlight the current state-trend toward the exclusion of women as key actors in critical decisions regarding economic recovery in post-conflict, disaster prone settings, especially as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic. While women, including young women, are increasingly participating in peace and security processes, this largely precludes participation in disaster risk reduction, recovery and governance efforts, which are important to improving women’s livelihoods and empowerment, but also to preventing future disasters and conflict. To effectively implement post-conflict recovery measures in high climate and disaster risk areas, it is imperative to create, maintain and sustain gender-responsive and inclusive policy, programming and financing efforts, with an effort to scale up the outreach to various excluded groups at large, such as persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, indigenous persons, and LGBTQI+ communities.

The session will focus on the experiences of young women peacebuilders, the LBTQI+ community, local women leaders in disaster resilience, and leaders from persons with disabilities organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to share their asks and lessons for a risk—informed, sustainable and equitable recovery for all.

◆Moderator
Ms. Rahel Steinbach, Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Programme Specialist, UN Women

◆Speakers
Honorable State Minister of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Dr. Md. Enamur Rahman, Bangladesh

Ms. Nisreen Elsaim, Chair of UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, and the Chair of Sudan Youth Organization on Climate Change, Sudan

Ms. Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Chair for the Shifting the Power coalition, the Chair of the Global Fund for Women Board and the Chair for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict and Board Member of the Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme, Fiji

Ms. Risnawati Utami, Founder/Senior Disability Rights Adviser, OHANA Indonesia
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Management
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