Including the Disabled Community in Resilience, Response and Recovery

Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction shifts the focus from hazards and vulnerabilities to capability, leadership, and response plans led by disabled people.

In this session, you’ll:

• Expand your knowledge of accessible disaster response.

• Learn about new emergency preparedness initiatives.

• Challenge biases and rethink assumptions about disability and disasters.

Speaker:
Renee Santos is a Senior Emergency Management Advisor with Wellington Region Emergency Management Agency (WREMO). She has spent the last six years working in community resilience and recovery, with a focus on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction. She uses her lived experience of being disabled to work towards better outcomes for disabled people in emergencies and is an advocate for whole-of-community approaches that encourage people to take ownership of emergency resilience, plans, and actions.

This is an important opportunity to rethink inclusion in emergencies and learn how we can build more equitable and resilient communities.