Building inclusive disaster resilience for persons with disabilities
Implementing Partner: Build Change
Project name:Building inclusive disaster resilience for persons with disabilities in India
This project enhances disaster management by integrating Persons with Disabilities into preparedness, response, and recovery processes.
Existing systems often lack accessibility, limiting resilience-building for this marginalized group. By addressing gaps in early warning, evacuation, and relief efforts, the initiative fosters inclusivity, ensuring equitable safety and adaptive support.
Strengthening accessibility empowers communities, enabling Persons with Disabilities to navigate disasters effectively while promoting long-term resilience through inclusive planning and policy implementation.
accessible to PwDs
DRR planning
Impact
1
The study provided targeted recommendations for vulnerable groups and developed comprehensive disaster management strategies, ensuring inclusivity across all phases. These approaches address the specific needs of marginalized communities, particularly Persons with Disabilities, fostering equitable resilience and adaptive preparedness.
2
Using a universally adaptable methodology, the project develops context-specific disaster risk reduction strategies, ensuring meaningful participation of vulnerable groups, especially individuals with disabilities, across all disaster management phases, fostering inclusivity, resilience, and equitable emergency preparedness.
3
The project identifies weaknesses in early warning, evacuation, and relief systems. It offers practical, inclusive solutions to help at-risk communities, especially people with disabilities, become more resilient and better prepared for future disasters.
