Disaster Risk Management

Around 1.3 million people live with some form of disability in the Caribbean. People with disabilities are often the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, making them more susceptible to the impacts of disasters, especially when their disabilities are compounded by poverty and marginalization. This is why the Canada-Caribbean Resilience Facility (CRF)'s recently finalized disability gap assessment is such an important achievement: it will inform the efforts of CRF’s nine target countries to build the necessary capacity for disaster preparedness and response.

Practical actions to advance social inclusion in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) projects. The actions identified are means to proactively expand their resilience impacts to a wider group of beneficiaries who tend to be excluded. (e.g. the elderly, persons with disabilities, women, children, ethnic/religious minorities, etc.).