Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
- English
Disasters affect communities unevenly. For people with disabilities, those risks are amplified when planning, communication, and response systems assume a “one-size-fits-all” approach.
Time
14:00 - 15:30 CET
About
Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) challenges this assumption. It recognises that people with disabilities are a diverse group with distinct needs, strengths, and insights. Effective disaster risk approaches need to be intersectional, contextually informed, and co-created with the people most affected.
In this webinar, we explore disability inclusion across the disaster management cycle and how DIDRR strengthens community resilience, improves outcomes, and builds systems that are not only more equitable but more effective. Drawing from research, practice, and lived-experience perspectives, this webinar will unpack:
- Why DIDRR must move beyond token gestures
- What it looks like to centre disability
- How social, economic, cultural, ideological, and geopolitical contexts shape barriers and opportunities
- Why “inclusion” is not uniform — and how to plan for diverse, evolving needs
- The leadership roles people with disabilities play
Join our speaker, Ike Nwanze, Lecturer in the Division of Disability Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, as he reframes what inclusive resilience requires.