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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.
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Documents and publications
Heat impacts on informal settlements: participatory heat data collection in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

This issue paper reports the findings of pilot participatory heat data collection in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Dharavi slums on the banks of the river Mumbai
Research briefs
Some people are getting trapped in place as the climate changes

Research shows that the poorest may be least able to move away from harm.

Yale Climate Connections
Case study
Kenya
Catalytic tech-based participatory methods to build climate resilience locally
This study investigates the catalytic role of low-tech participatory methods in enhancing climate resilience at the local level, using Mathare Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, as a case study.
  • Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC)
Case study
Bangladesh
Lived experiences of “invisibilized” slum and informal settlement populations: Climate change impacts, adaptation, and the way forward for slum transformation
This study investigates how vulnerabilities manifest in two urban contexts in Bangladesh: Chattogram, where residents face recurrent flooding and infrastructural breakdowns, and Cox’s Bazar, where climate migrants from Kutubdia Island endure cyclones.
  • Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC)
Case study
Nigeria
Assessment of community-led flood adaption strategies in Lagos coastal slums, Nigeria
The study highlights notable policy gaps in embedding bottom-up innovations into urban resilience planning, and advocates co-designed interventions that strengthen social capital, offer technical assistance, financing.
  • Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC)
Update
Why disabled people are particularly vulnerable during power outages

Disabled people face heightened risks during power outages, like those in Texas’s 2021 winter freeze, because loss of electricity can threaten mobility, medical devices, and life-sustaining care, highlighting the need for inclusive disaster planning.

Yale Climate Connections
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Documents and publications
How to ensure inclusive early warning early action? Good practices and local innovations from Eastern Nepal that leave no one behind

In this policy paper, published by the Finnish Red Cross in November 2025, the Nepal Red Cross Society shows how effectiveness in disaster preparedness depends on the meaningful participation of groups in the most vulnerable situations.

PrepareCenter.org
Shinjuku area in Tokyo, full of shopping malls, electrical appliance stores, fashion stores, second-hand goods, and restaurants. It is the largest night entertainment area in Japan
Blog
Patrick Cadwell
Japan’s changing DRR policy discourse and what it means for inclusion
The last two decades in Japan reveal a steady increase in the language of inclusion, and a more detailed consideration of how to engage foreign nationals in DRR. There is a lot of good to take away from this more inclusive DRR policy in Japan.
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