This document discusses disability inclusive disaster risk reduction. It defines disability and lists common types. The key principles of including people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction efforts are accessibility, participation, collaboration, non-discrimination, effective communication, integration, inclusion, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Guidelines are provided for including people with disabilities in humanitarian actions. Challenges include a lack of accessibility and data on people with disabilities. Recommendations focus on ensuring full participation of people with disabilities in training and disaster response planning.

1. DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DISASTER
RISK REDUCTION

2. • Blindness
• Low-vision
• Deaf
• Dwarfism
• Mental retardation/Mental illness
• Autism spectrum disorder
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Speech and language disability
• Parkinson disease
• Handicaps
• Epilepsy
• Hemophilia
WHAT IS
DISABILITY?
2
• A disability is defined as a condition
or function judged to be significantly
impaired relative to the usual
standard of an individual or group.
The term is used to refer to
individual functioning, including
physical impairment, sensory
impairment, cognitive impairment,
intellectual impairment mental
illness, and various types of chronic
disease.

3. • ACCESSIBLITY
• PARTICIPATION
• COLLABORATION AND RESILLIENCE
• NON- DISCRIMINATION
• EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
• INTREGRATION
• INCLUSION
• PREVENTION
• PREPAREDNESS
• RESPONSE
• RECOVERY
KEY
PRICIPLES OF
DIDDR
(Disability-inclusive disaster risk
reduction)
3

4. • 15-20% of the
world population
are persons with
disabilities
(WHO,2011)
Quick fact and figure
• Mortality rates among persons
with disabilities were 2-4 times
higher compared to those
without disabilities during the
Great East Japan Earthquake
2011
(Japan Disability Forum, 2011)
• 75% of those who died in
Hurricane Cathrina in the
US (2005) were aged 60+
(HelpAge, 2017)
• 63% of persons with
disabilities need assistance
evacuating
• 57% of persons with
disabilities face barriers
accessing DRR information
(ASB & University of Sydney,
2014)

5. • INCLUDE ALL,SAFETY FOR ALL
• COMMUNITY RESILLIENCE
• DATA OF DISABLED PEOPLE
• ASSISTIVE DEVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES
• CARE HOMES AND FOSTER CARE HOUSES
• RAMPS,RAILINGS AROUND THE PREMISES
• ADEQUATE LANGUAGES FOR ALL KIND OF
DISABLED PEOPLE
• DISABILITY ADVOCATES AND VOLUNTEERS
• ASSEMBLY POINTS,EXIT ROUTES MUST BE
EXPLAINED WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE
RISK
REDUCTION
FOR DISABLED
5

6. 6
GUIDLINES
INCLUSION OF
PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES
IN
HUMANITARIAN
ACTION
• Acknowledge, understand, and embrace the widespread nature
of disability. Disability touches every demographic category –
gender, age, race, sexual orientation, etc. and impacts most
people eventually through accident, illness or aging.
• Recognize the talents of people with disabilities.
• Make a commitment to enable people with disabilities to develop
peer relationships, build social skills, and respect and accept
each other.
• Provide training to make inclusion successful. Inclusion is a lot
less expensive than most people think, but it still takes intention
to do it effectively.
• Communicate from the top that all people, including people with
disabilities, have value and are respected and openly welcomed.
• Make sure people with disabilities are part of the solution.
• Update facilities to make them more welcoming to people with
disabilities.
• Ensure your communications are accessible.
• Ensure the space is physically accessible.

7. TYPES OF DISABILITIES IN NEPAL
• According to 2011 CRN, the total
population of Nepal was 513,321
with 280,086
male and 233,235 female
respectively. Within this, there was
seven types of disabilities:
physical, visual, deaf-blind, speech,
mental, intellectual and multiple
disabilities. The figures
indicated that the physically disabled
population was ten times higher than
the intellectually
disabled.

8. DISABELS ARE FIRST VICTIMS IN NATURAL
DISASTER
8
•Only 20% say that they are able to evacuate immediately
without difficulty in the event of a sudden disaster, the rest
could only do so with a certain degree of difficulty, and 6%
would not be able to do so at all.
•71% of respondents do not have an individual preparedness
plan for natural disasters.
•Only 31% always have someone to help them to evacuate,
whereas 13% have no one to help them.
•Only 17% of respondents are aware of the their community’s
disaster preparedness plan.
•Only 14% are consulted during the preparation of these
disaster preparedness plans.

9. • Policy formulation and
implementation
• Inclusion
• Information and communication
• Recognition of values, experiences,
and ideas
• Dissemination of knowledge
products
• Database
• Assistive devices and technologies
• Access to information on DRR
• Barriers and challenges
CHALLENGES
AND GAPS
9

10. • Ensuring the disables as priority
• Full participation in training and
drills
• Increasing awareness in
community and local governance
• Personal and health data of
disables
• Friendly public spaces and
buildings
• Briefing about all incidents and
disasters
• Less sympathy more freedom and
open community
MAINSTREAMING
DISABILITY IN
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

11. • Stigma and discrimination
• Superstitions
• Data gaps in disability
identification
• Lack of accessibility
• Difficulties in recoveries from
disasters
• Community resilience
CHALLENGE
S

12. • Enabling and Engaging persons
with disabilities to take up active
roles as DRM actors.
• Extending the leverage through
joint advocacy efforts towards
inclusive DRM.
• Empowering physically
challenged people.
• Approach Disability inclusion
tangentially instead of head on.
• Build a network to work together.
GOOD
PRACTICES

13. • Work Along With Private sector
and Non governmental
organization.
• Capacity building.
• Community wide approach.
• Awareness and education
• Data collections and utilization
• Accessibility improvements.
• Issues for considerations.
Policy
Recommendations

14. DISABILITY FRIENDLY COMMUNITY
14

15. 15