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🔎🇪🇺 FOCUS on Anna Battistutta (Policy Officer at European Commission for civil protection policy development (DG ECHO – Directorate B)), who will take the floor on "What EU policies for vulnerable groups?".
 
 📑 ABSTRACT 📑

👉 It is recognised that around 15% of the world’s population live with some form of disability, and this percentage is likely to increase in delicate contexts like disasters. In fact, persons with disabilities are those most exposed to disaster risks and are rarely involved in the emergency decision-making processes. 

👉 In recent years, disasters have grown exponentially, increasing their intensity and severity. Despite the visible development in the overall disaster response over the past decades, persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by humanitarian and emergency situations. Progress needs to be done to assess the vulnerability of people with disabilities, especially when it comes to disasters.

👉 DG ECHO is working towards the development of preparedness activities, and continues supporting the development of a more inclusive disaster risk reduction and emergency response in its civil protection policies and operations.
 
🇪🇺 BIOGRAPHY 🇪🇺

👉 Anna Battistutta, originally an architect with experience in the field of urban planning, has recently joined the European Commission, and more specifically DG ECHO, where she covers the role of Policy Officer in the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Directorate, Policy Development team.

👉 Among her tasks, Anna Battistutta is currently the Equality Focal point for Civil Protection, contributing to the overall integration of the equality perspective in both DG ECHO policy and within DG ECHO.

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🔎 FOCUS on Alexandre Tsakiridis (Disaster risk specialist, PreventionWeb Editor), who will take the floor on "Applying an intersectional lens to vulnerability reduction" 🔎

The CORE Consortium is delighted to remind you about joining its Webinar #2 on Designing an inclusive resilience: The full consideration of vulnerability before, during and after disasters, to be held next October 3, 2022, from 13h00 to 16h00 CEST, with a final agenda and some already promoted speakers.

You can already register here, with an access to the final agenda.

You can follow our LinkedIn and Twitter channels to stay tuned and help us boost the promotion of the event: our speakers and their presentations are already being promoted.

Please find below some promoted speakers who will take the floor:

- Leyla Craig, Disability Inclusion and Engagement Officer at the Fire and Rescue NSW (New South Wales - Australia) who will take the floor on "The Co-Production Approach to Fire Safety for People with Disabilities".

- Enrico Ronchi, Assoc. Prof. at Department of Fire Safety Engineering, Lund University, Sweden), who will take the floor on "Egressibility: a paradigm shift for an inclusive building design".

- Sofia Karma (Teaching Laboratory Staff of National Technical University of Athens & Research Associate at European Centre for Forest Fires (ECFF), Conseil de l'Europe), who will take the floor on "Inclusive Community Engagement in Disaster Risk Management: How active participation of vulnerable groups in disaster preparedness & response could strengthen disaster resilience".

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