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104 - Education and Technologies for Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction,
Technical Secretary´s Office, Ecuador
CONTACT
Technical Secretary´s Office for the Inclusive Management on Disabilities - Vice Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador
Mr. Daniel Garcia
Ecuador
+593 2 3933 940 1131
OVERALL GOAL /MISSION
The team of the project wants to implement the Ecuadorian Inclusive Disaster Risk Management Methodology to
strengthen the response capacity of persons with disabilities, their families and caregivers for disaster risk reduction.
THE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED
The team of the project assumes that events have a greater impact on persons with disabilities and those persons with
disabilities and their needs are often ignored and excluded from all phases of disaster risk reduction. Therefore, it
wants to develop and implement the Ecuadorian Disaster Risk Management Methodology through house-by-house
visits to know the specific needs of a person with disabilities and to design an inclusive emergency plan, inclusive
audiobooks, a website, a geo-location software and inter-agency coordination.
COUNTRIES IN WHICH IT WAS DEVELOPED: Ecuador
COUNTRY/ COUNTRIES IN WHICH IT IS OPERATING: Ecuador, Colombia
FACTS ABOUT SIZE AND SCOPE
1) 14 625 direct beneficiaries that inhabit high risk zones in Ecuador’s highlands
2) 36 123 indirect beneficiaries that inhabit high risk zones on Ecuador’s highlands
3) Since 2014 persons with disabilities and their needs have been given priority in Ecuador’s National Risk
Management Strategy
4) 100% implementation in high-risk zones in Ecuador’s highlands
5) Ecuador has also started the replication of the program in Southern Colombia
OUTLOOK
The Ecuadorian Inclusive Disaster Risk Management Methodology is easily adaptable as shown by the replication
experience in a community in Southern Colombia. Extra costs come only into being because of logistics (especially for
printed materials and methodological tools).