Ensuring an all-of-society engagement and partnership for DRR through empowerment and inclusive, accessible and non-discriminatory participation, paying special attention to people disproportionately affected by disasters, especially the poorest.
Here are five ways countries ensure persons with disabilities are not left behind when the next disaster strikes.
Through the project, houses are to be constructed according to local authority guidelines and incorporate disaster risk reduction features to minimise the effects of natural disasters including monsoon rains and flooding...
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
'Women are not simply a resource for Disaster Risk Reduction efforts, human or economic. Women are stakeholders, rights-holders, decision-makers and must be recognised as such,' said FemLINKPACIFIC's Ms Adi Vasulevu Merewalasi...
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
The new framework must set ambitious global targets to reduce disaster risk for vulnerable people in order to create real global accountability for DRR efforts. It must prioritize the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable groups, including women, the elderly and people with disabilities, who, due to discrimination, lack equal access to information and economic insecurity, are disproportionately impacted by disasters and have less of a say in DRR decision-making...
The Red Cross and the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) work together in Haiti to educate children on simple actions which kids can do when disasters hit. The project, part of the DIPECHO programme on risk management and disaster, uses games and songs to teach disaster risk reduction to the young ones...
European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
Women's vulnerability to disasters is a sign not of weakness but of inequality, and barriers to women taking the lead in protecting themselves must be removed, top politicians and officials told a U.N. conference on Saturday...
'A key thing is how to get back to normalcy and get back on track. How quickly this happens after a disaster depends on what we do in terms of preparedness beforehand,' said UNICEF's Regional Emergency Advisor, recalling recent typhoons Hagupit and Haiyan, recovery and education efforts...
This document provides the world with the first set of regionally agreed disability-inclusive development goals. The Incheon strategy goals cover a range of development areas, including disaster risk reduction (DRR). It calls for disability-inclusive
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
