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NEWTWORK OBJECTIVES
-Provide a non-profit, mutually supportive, regional space for Latin America and the Caribbean for the promotion, dissemination and exchange of knowledge and good experiences related to Inclusive Disaster Risk Management with emphasis on people with disabilities.
-Promote the inclusion and full participation of people with disabilities in the disability and their families in all phases of disaster risk management, based on human rights and in accordance with the International Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction will be developed and implemented.
PARTICIPATION
Promote wide participation in events and related processes.
ADVOCACY
Provide advocacy on the importance of a fully inclusive approach to decision-making at all levels and in all spheres of action, in political and training spaces.
VIRTUAL SPACE
Having a virtual space for promotion, dissemination and exchange of knowledge and information on inclusive disaster risk management with emphasis on people with disabilities.
Our Portfolio
Inclusive Alert System
ABS Inclusive Evacuation
Official declaration People with disabilities
Official declaration Ecuador, GP RRD Cancún 2017
Recommendations for people with disabilities in earthquakes.
Inclusion of people with disabilities in RRD (CBM India)
Members
The Inclusive Risk Management Network for Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean is created to promote effective participation and inclusion of people with disabilities and is made up of the following members:
RET International
CBM
OPS
UNISDR
ONG Inclusiva
RIADIS
ASB
SECRETARIA DE GESTION DE RIESGOS
%
Don't participate in the decision-making nor the planning of community processes.
%
Of the inquired people say they don't have a a personal preparation plan in case of disaster.
20%
Would evacuate immediately without problems and 6% would not be able at all.
From 20% to 38%.
Would be able to evacuate if they had enough time.
News
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11 June, 2018
In one of its articles, the EFE agency interviews Carlos Kaiser, director of NGO Inclusiva and…
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27 August, 2017
Who is RET International RET International is an independent, impartial, non-governmental…
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27 August, 2017
CBM is a federation composed of 11 countries as member associations based in Germany, Australia,…
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27 August, 2017
The Central American project "Inclusion of people with disabilities and older adults in…
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22 August, 2017
On October 26, the National Council for the Attention of Persons with Disabilities (CONADI) and ASB…
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22 August, 2017
Kirsi Madi, Director of UNISDR, had two meetings with groups of people with disabilities…
Recommendations
In all phases of disaster risk management, it is essential to identify:
• Who are the people with disabilities?
• Where are people with disabilities?
• What do people with disabilities need?
• Information management on disability
Identification (Visibility),
• In disaster risk reduction.
• In the reduction and preparation of disasters
• In disaster preparedness, response and recovery:
CONCRETE ACTIONS,
Representation of people with disabilities with community-based participation approaches;
People with disabilities, the people who help them and the organizations that represent them should be included in decision processes, including risk assessments.
EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION,
