UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Women’s Resilience to Disasters programme hosted a regional training workshop on advancing gender-transformative disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Seoul from 6 to 8 September.

The training programme was designed using materials and resources available on the Women’s Resilience to Disaster Knowledge Portal which is managed under the UN Women Disaster Risk Reduction Gender Equality Accelerator, the Women’s Resilience to Disaster (WRD) programme. The training gathered 44 representatives and experts from the governments and civil society organizations from 12 countries in Asia and the Pacific including Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Viet Nam.