The Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies – Climate Resilience & Humanitarian Response Component (BRAVE-CRHR) project faced the challenge of understanding deeply entrenched gender inequalities across five disaster-prone districts in Pakistan — Badin, Sujawal, Khairpur, Muzaffargarh, and Sohbatpur. Women, transgender persons, religious minorities, and people with disabilities faced systemic barriers to citizenship rights, basic services, economic participation, and political representation. Recurring floods and droughts disproportionately burdened these groups, while early warning systems, disaster response mechanisms, and public services remained gender-blind, fragmented, and inadequate. Rising religious conservatism, feudal power structures, and declining international funding further deepened vulnerabilities, leaving communities — particularly women — exposed to gender-based violence, displacement, and poverty with little institutional support.
