From Sendai to the SDGs: Institutionalizing Grassroots Women's Leadership for Greater Resilience

Both the Sendai Framework and the SDGs recognize the importance of ending all forms of discrimination against women and ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making. Empowering women as public actors and change agents is a critical ingredient for building resilience. This side event will focus on how grassroots women leaders have been working together with their local, national and regional authorities and external agencies to foster collaborative and inclusive planning and decision making processes that measurably reduce risk and vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change.