Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Network

REDUCING RISKS OF DISASTER FOR ALL PEOPLE

Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Network promotes meaningful contribution of ALL in developing resilience towards disaster

DiDRRN is a consortium of like-minded Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and ‘mainstream’ and disability-focused development and relief organisations. Our collective aim is to secure the active participation, and meaningful contribution, of persons with disabilities in DRR policy and practice post – Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

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We share common trends, strategies ideas, opinions, short & long stories from the Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Network.

Disaster mortality rates are higher among people with disabilities.

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15%

Around 15 per cent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. They are the world’s largest minority.

(WHO)

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71%

71% of persons with disabilities do not have an individual preparedness plan for disasters.

(UNDRR, 2013)

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85%

About 85% of persons living with disabilities have not participated in community disaster management and risk reduction processes in their communities.

(UNDRR, 2013)

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63% and 57%

63% of persons with disabilities need assistance evacuating 57% of persons with disabilities face barriers accessing DRR information.

(ASB & University of Sydney, 2014)

Why inclusion
matters?

People with disabilities may face challenges in accessing and acting on disaster-related information due to physical or cognitive impairments, which puts them at higher risk. The DRR community has overlooked the active participation of disabled people and their environmental constraints within disaster risk reduction. As a result, the current approach to DRR excludes and denies access to critical information for the most vulnerable members of society.

We work around the globe to strengthen #ResilienceForAll

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"Empowering women and persons with disabilities to publicly lead and promote gender equitable and universally accessible response, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction approaches is key"

SENDAI FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION