Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
| Dates: | 11 December 2025 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, General public |
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| Speaker: | Ike Nwanze |
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Building resilience means including everyone.
"Nothing about us, without us” should shape effective, ethical disaster risk reduction.
Disasters affect communities unevenly. For people with disabilities, those risks are amplified when planning, communication, and response systems assume a “one-size-fits-all” approach.
Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) challenges this assumption. It recognises that people with disabilities are a diverse group with distinct needs, strengths, and insights. Effective disaster risk approaches need to be intersectional, contextually informed, and co-created with the people most affected.
This webinar will explore disability inclusion across the disaster management cycle and how DIDRR strengthens community resilience, improves outcomes, and builds systems that are not only more equitable but more effective.
Join our speaker, Ike Nwanze, Lecturer in the Division of Disability Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, as he reframes what inclusive resilience requires.
Speaker
Ike Nwanze
Role: Lecturer
Organisation: University of Cape Town
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