Tags: disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction

Nothing about us without us: Disability-inclusive disaster preparedness in Vietnam

The villages along the rivers Vu Gia and Thu Bon in Central Vietnam are flooded up to four times per year. This situation poses a great danger to people with disabilities, since mobility constraints, the lack of access to information and their marginalization in society makes them especially vulnerable. To include their needs and wishes …

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Creating disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction models

http://preventionweb.net/globalplatfo…for more information and to download the presentation. The session introduces key elements of initiative undertaken by Handicap International India to integrate persons with disabilities in disaster risk management (10% of world population by UN estimates). It shares achievements and challenges in bringing this invisible and excluded population to the mainstream DRM program and building …

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