To improve responses to disasters, including climate-related events, the UNFPA strengthens emergency preparedness for responses and resilience in communities to ensure that the needs of women and adolescent girls, alongside other vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities and the elderly, are fully incorporated into humanitarian responses.

This includes conducting evidence-based advocacy for the inclusion of sexual and reproductive health and rights into national and subnational disaster risk reduction and climate policies, strategies, and plans, ensuring they are inclusive, rights-based, and gender-transformative; providing support to supply chain management; and prepositioning vital sexual and reproductive health kits and protection supplies, such as dignity kits, for rapid deployment to address the needs of women and girls.

It also supports the capacity building of relevant institutions and actors in integrating sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence into preparedness, anticipatory action, response, and resilience building, as well as advocating for the institutionalization of the minimum initial service package for sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence response services at the onset of a humanitarian crisis, with a focus on provincial and local levels.