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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.

Latest Inclusion additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications

This report brings together this year’s work on digital exclusion, eroding rights, politicised governance, and climate impacts to show how these risks are converging and reshaping disaster risk reduction.

DRR Dynamics Ltd
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Documents and publications

The study aims to examine how GEDSI has been integrated into Anticipaty Action (AA) in the region, drawing from case stu­dies from Nepal, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to provide concrete insights into how GEDSI and AA can be integrated.

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN)
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Documents and publications

This study examined disaster risk reduction education practices in inclusive primary schools, identified effective strategies, and evaluated the impact on students with and without disabilities.

Progress in Disaster Science (Elsevier)
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Documents and publications

This publication proactively reaches out to the most marginalised people within Thiès, Senegal, to understand their experiences of flooding and diverse needs and capacities, to inform a more inclusive and effective EWS.

Practical Action
Women planting seedlings by a riverbank, with text saying "Gender equality advances resilient development"
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Persistent gender inequalities continue to shape how societies prepare for, experience, and recover from climate and disaster risks. Here are three areas where gender data reveals clear implications for disaster risk reduction and resilient development.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Documents and publications

This brief examines how the rights and needs of assistive technology users can be more effectively addressed in DRR and climate action.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Documents and publications

This study examines a peer leadership approach by a disability representative organisation in Australia, designed to enhance individualised support for members and improve systemic advocacy efforts.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Research briefs

A new three-year Charles Sturt University research project has uncovered how extreme heat is quietly disrupting home care services in rural New South Wales.

Charles Sturt University
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