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🔎🇪🇺 FOCUS on Giampiero Griffo (World Council Member of Disabled Peoples International, who will take the floor on "The need to define better vulnerability".
 
 📑 ABSTRACT 📑

👉 Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD - United Nations) which commits to guaranteeing the protection of persons with disabilities in the event of disasters and emergency situations is still poorly applied by governments (it is seen during the SAR-COV-2 pandemic and the war in Ukraine).

👉 An European Disability Forum research showed that out of 55 European and Asian countries surveyed, only 5 had specific attention to persons with disabilities in the event of disasters. There are many lack of attention and lack of initiatives.

👉 Persons with disabilities are not vulnerable but become vulnerable for barriers and discrimination produce by society, in emergency situation too.
The construction of inclusive protection systems is a process whose essential elements are: the involvement of organizations of persons with disabilities in all emergency clusters, a systematic collection of data (mapping of persons with disabilities for rescue and first assistance, adaptation of means and tools, specific training for operators and persons with disabilities, inclusion in national and territorial emergency plans, legislation and resources invested.

👉 Persons with disabilities are no longer the object of interventions decided by others, but subject to change and innovation: "nothing about us without us”.
 
🇪🇺 BIOGRAPHY 🇪🇺

👉 Human Rights defender
👉 Coordinator of the Technical & Scientific Committee of the National Observatory of the Condition of Persons with Disabilities
👉 Co-director of the Center for Governmentality & Disability studies “Robert Castel” (CeRC) of Università degli Studi 'Suor Orsola Benincasa'​” in Naples.

👉 Wheelchair user, active from 19722 at local, national and international level, Giampiero Griffo is World Council Member of Disabled Peoples International, Board member of European Disability Forum, Chairperson of the Italian network on disability and development, Member of S. Marino Bioethic Committee.

👉 Advisor in Italian delegation at the Ad Hoc Committee that writed the UNCRPD.
👉 Expert in European and international cooperation projets, he has also edited articles, books and research in all areas of disability issues at national and international level in 4 languages.
👉 Member of the Economic & Social Committee of the Italian Council of Ministries Presidency for planning the post SARS-COV-2 pandemic.

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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" 🔎