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A side event of the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 22-26 June 2014, Bangkok

Multi Stakeholders Pre-Conference on Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, 09:00-12:00, 22nd June 2014, Centara Grand at CentralWorld

DIDRR: Repositioning PWDs as Development Partner and Rights Holder

By
Monthian Buntan
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
and
Former Senator of Thailand
mbuntan@gmail.com

Abstract

In general term, persons with disabilities are often the first to be forgotten and the last to be remembered. Such phenomena is even more obvious in the situation at risk of disasters or emergencies when PWDs remain at the bottom of the vulnerable groups.

This presentation is to challenge such conventional thought and approach by moving PWDs away from being just a vulnerable group who could only wait for help from others toward a more progressive/positive role/status as equal partner in the development field and rights holder from the human rights prospective. Such challenge could be met by ensuring full inclusion, active participation and genuine accessibility in all aspects of disaster risk reduction.

On the road to Sendai, March 2015: Highlights of the Asia-Pacific Meeting on Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Changing Mindsets through Knowledge, 22-23 April 2014, Sendai, Japan - a briefing

By
Hiroshi Kawamura
DiDRR Project Manager of the Rehabilitation International
and
Board Member of the DAISY Consortium
hkawa@atdo.jp

Abstracts

Japan has developed Disaster Risk Reduction measures based on the Hyogo Frame Work for Actions (HFA). However, the Great East Japan Earthquake urged us to rethink the HFA in many ways to secure lives of persons with disabilities and other disproportionally affected groups of people. Organizations concerned with Disability-inclusive DRR (DiDRR) co-organized a meeting in Sendai to learn from lessons of disasters in Asia and the Pacific Region. The Outcome Document of the Sendai Meeting delivers a key message to change the mindsets on disability in DRR context from liabilities to assets which will result in better opportunities to save lives of everybody in the community at disasters and better quality of life. Two key areas are identified to move forward: participation of persons with disabilities in the policy development process including the revision of the HFA and participation in good practices development at community level. The clue to moving forward is how to develop accessible infrastructure and provide reasonable accommodations in DRR context.