Every day, women and girls around the world face systematic barriers that reinforce harmful disparities in access to resources, health, and leadership representation. These crises are further intensified by disasters, climate change, and persistent gaps in gender-responsive climate adaptation and resilience frameworks. An article by the United Nations titled Why women are key to climate action revealed that climate shocks and agricultural disruptions disproportionately increase girls’ agricultural and household burdens. This undermines their decision-making autonomy, hinders long-term empowerment, and threatens their resilience in the face of climate shocks. Our event convenes women and girls alongside expert panelists to elevate grassroots perspectives through storytelling rooted in three key intersectional issues: health equity, women’s agency, and resource scarcity. This event will translate lived experiences of responding to disasters and climate change in gender-responsive ways into actionable policy dialogue and informed decision-making.