Five actions for disability-inclusive disaster risk management

A recent survey of the literature and experience identified five broad actions that development institutions and governments, as well as their partners and stakeholders, can take to improve disability-inclusive disaster risk management. Those five actions are:

• Include persons with disabilities as valued stakeholders in disaster risk management activities
• Help remove barriers to the full participation of persons with disabilities
• Increase awareness among governments and their partners of the safety and security needs of persons with disabilities
• Collect data that is disaggregated by disability
• Ensure that new construction, rehabilitation and reconstruction are accessible to persons with disabilities