Inclusion

The first instinct of urban leaders is often to harden their cities through engineering and infrastructure. But just as the temperature of a heat wave or the height of a storm surge, it is the strength of a neighborhood that determines who lives and dies in a disaster. Building against climate change can either support vibrant neighborhood conditions or undermine them.

As part of the project “Widening the participation of people with disabilities in community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM)”, a survey was carried out in four rural communes in Vietnam to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of local people regarding CBDRM. The four communes are all located in flood-prone areas and frequently affected by disasters.

This DRF guides the planning and implementation of recovery programmes and projects, providing overall direction to the government, the private sector, development partners, civil society and communities.

This publication stresses the importance of involving migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and the organisations that represent them, in counter-disaster programming in Europe. The recommendations seek to improve communication, foster mutual

By 2030, without efforts to boost urban resilience, climate change may push up to 77 million urban residents into poverty. The good news is that the world has a brief window of opportunity to make cities more resilient to climate change, natural disasters, and other stresses, as almost 60% of the urban area that will be built by 2030 is yet to be developed.

This policy brief looks at climate-related migration from the disability perspective to understand the unique characteristics of people with disabilities (PWDs), as well as factors that need to be taken into account to address the vulnerability and needs

Small-island developing states are inherently vulnerable to climate impacts. They tend to be low lying with high population densities, have economies concentrated on the coast, produce weather-dependent exports, and rely on fuel imports. But they are more than just the frontlines of climate change – they are hubs for adaptation, their isolation encouraging innovation.

Hundreds of people, including many survivors of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, participated in Indonesia’s first disaster risk reduction (DRR) simulation for people with disabilities in Aceh province with the support of IOM. Participants helped injured “victims”, including roughly 150 people with disabilities, reach safety in a wheelchair accessible, three-storey safe house.