Disaster, Disability,& Difference

Resource Summary

Contributor(s): National Federation of the Disabled, Nepal, Social Science Baha, UNDP Type: Research Report Categories: Disaster Risk Management Language: English Keyword(s): disability, disability identity cards, disaster, intellectual disabilities, mental disabilities, mental health, social exclusion, unequal education opportunities Published Year: 2016 Format: Documents

This research-based report seeks to empirically assess the contemporary landscape of disability
in Nepal, with a focus on the unique challenges faced by persons with disabilities (PwDs) in the wake of the earthquakes that devastated Nepal in April and May of 2015. This study helps to analyze the uneven impacts of the earthquake on socially disadvantaged groups and persons with disabilities. Conducted during the Early Recovery phase, this study focused on identifying trends of structural well as the ways these trends' quality and social exclusion structurally affect differential patterns of resilience and recovery as well as ways these trends might be mitigated from the perspective of policy and practice