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Disability inclusion and disaster risk reduction: Overcoming barriers to progress
Author(s)
Twigg, John; Kett, Maria; Lovell, Emma
Source
Overseas Development Institute

Publication Year
2018
Number of pages
12 p.
This briefing note identifies five key challenges that need to be addressed in order to promote disability inclusion in DRR and humanitarian action, relating to evidence and data, contextual understanding, institutions and programmes, representation and discrimination. It highlights the importance of rights-based approaches, together with improved standards and indicators, in overcoming these challenges.
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