International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2020), para. 103
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61. Encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United Nations humanitarian organizations, to promote women’s leadership, gender equality and empowerment of women and their full and effective participation in the planning and implementation of natural disaster response strategies and humanitarian response to effectively address their specific needs, including through strengthening partnerships with, and building the capacities of, national and local institutions, including national and local women’s organizations and civil society actors, as appropriate, to adopt gender-responsive programming on mitigation and adaptation to climate change and to support the resilience and adaptive capacities of women and girls to respond to and recover from adverse impacts of climate change;