Despite their disproportionate vulnerability to disaster risks, women and their needs are often ignored in disaster risk planning, resulting in warnings that do not target and/or fail to reach them, emergency shelters that often lack privacy, and sometimes inappropriate post-disaster reconstruction. ICIMOD and NGO partners worked with 11 municipalities in four high-risk watersheds in the Koshi River Basin in eastern Nepal to train staff in integrating gender issues into disaster planning and budgeting. Importantly, this included adaptations to Nepal’s national online financial management system – the sub-national Treasury Regulatory Application (SuTRA). ICIMOD is documenting lessons learned from these municipalities and conducting training of trainers to spread the learning more widely.