14. Disability inclusive disaster risk management: Voices from the field & good practices

Extract from the Preface:

We can feel a powerful momentum to reduce risks and reinforce resilience in our communities. It is crucial to maintain a sustainable impetus among all the actors: from the civil societies to the governments, from the local grassroots organisations to the international organisations, with the academics and the private sectors and with the disability movement, we need to include everyone. Together we can achieve so much more.

This is exactly what this publication is about: working together to build the maximum resilience for all communities, including everyone. Specifically, together with our partners from the field, we have collected a number of good practices of inclusion of persons with disabilities in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and recovery practices.

Our job is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest communities of the world. We ensure everyone is included before, during and after times of disaster. It is fundamental to include persons with disabilities at every stage of the disaster risk management: it is essential, it can be easy and cost effective, and most importantly, it builds stronger resilience.

The majority of the good practices come from the unique experience of the Disability-inclusive DRR Network for Asia and the Pacific (DiDRRN). The DiDRRN is a consortium of like-minded disabled people's organisations (DPOs) and 'mainstream' and disability-focused organisations. It was launched at the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia in October 2012. Our collective aim is to secure the active participation, and meaningful contribution, of persons with disabilities in DRR policy and practice up to 2015 and beyond.

This publication will support you to reach everyone including persons with disabilities in the upcoming Hyogo Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction II. It will help you focus on participation and effectiveness. Because you want to listen to everyone, this publication will show you how to bring persons with disabilities together with mainstream organisations, increasing your efficiency. 

A report from CBM

Read the full Report here: http://www.cbm.org/article/downloads/54741/Disability_Inclusive_Disaster_Risk_Management.pdf