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🌊 What does gender have to do with disaster risk management?
Amaly Fong Lee, Associate Research Professor at the International Maritime University of Panama, shares how her perspective shifted through a deeper understanding of intersectionality—especially in a field traditionally dominated by engineering mindsets. ⚙️🌍
She highlights a powerful success story: a 19-year-old university student from a high-risk community who’s leading disaster education efforts through the Copaguar project. Her work is a shining example of how young women are transforming resilience from the ground up. 💪👩🎓🌱
Let’s celebrate the voices shaping a more inclusive and effective approach to disaster risk reduction.
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The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
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🌊 What does gender have to do with disaster risk management?
Amaly Fong Lee, Associate Research Professor at the International Maritime University of Panama, shares how her perspective shifted through a deeper understanding of intersectionality—especially in a field traditionally dominated by engineering mindsets. ⚙️🌍
She highlights a powerful success story: a 19-year-old university student from a high-risk community who’s leading disaster education efforts through the Copaguar project. Her work is a shining example of how young women are transforming resilience from the ground up. 💪👩🎓🌱
Let’s celebrate the voices shaping a more inclusive and effective approach to disaster risk reduction.
************
Subscribe to UNDRR on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCUw0G3AdE_0EDhcDPlJtJyA?sub_confirmation=1
Captions: Where possible we provide additional captions to make our videos more accessible to those who use assistive technology, such as screen readers. If you don't require the captions they can be toggled off using the CC button, usually at the bottom of the video display.
About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
Sign up for updates: undrr.org/subscribe-undrr-updates
Follow:
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twitter.com/UNDRR
facebook.com/unisdr
