Hosted by the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney

National Forum on Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction

When

9.30am – 4.30pm, 2 June 2023

Cost

Free, by invitation

Location

The University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW – Building F23 Administration Building

Join us for Australia’s first National Forum on Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR), hosted by the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney.

The Forum is a free, by invitation event to gather information from key stakeholders about how to operationalise a multi sector, collaborative framework for DIDRR.

At this Forum, we will:

Share the Leave Nobody Behind project research findings.
Facilitate discussions about how to translate these research findings into inclusive policy, inclusive information, and inclusive practice.
Gather input towards the development and operationalisation of a framework for cross-sector collaborative action on DIDRR that will be delivered later in 2023.

The Forum will present research findings from the Leave Nobody Behind (LNB) project’s interdisciplinary research team and their partners. Input from stakeholders attending the Forum will be a key component of the event.

During the Forum participants including people with disability, carers, service providers, emergency services representatives, and those working in policy development will workshop the framework using action orientated DIDRR knowledge and practices, as well as emerging research from the LNB project.

The University of Sydney is proudly partnering with the NSW Government and the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) to deliver this event.

About the Leave Nobody Behind project

Forum Program

Leave Nobody Behind webinar series

More information

Including accessibility and contact details

About the Leave Nobody Behind project

For the past 18-months, the Leave Nobody Behind (LNB) project led by A/Prof. Michelle Villeneuve, has been delivering multi-stakeholder workshops across local governments, designed to build cross-sector community capacity to ensure that nobody is left behind when disasters strike. These workshops build upon five years of participatory action research involving co-production of person-centred and capability-focused approaches to disaster risk reduction with multiple stakeholders from the community, disability, emergency and government sectors.

The latest research includes national surveys on the emergency preparedness, capabilities and support needs of people with disability, as well as carers, and service providers from the community, health, and disability services sectors; evaluation of the interdisciplinary Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness national training program; and field research to develop disability inclusive emergency planning with local governments and their interagency partners.

The LNB project is developing a framework for cross-sector collaborative action on DIDRR, supported and enabled by co-produced tools that everyone can use. This scalable framework will have the potential for broad impact across Australian communities so that nobody is left behind when disasters strike.

National DIDRR Forum program

*Forum program subject to change and updates.

Time	Presentation
8.30am	Arrival - tea and coffee
9.30am	Opening and welcome
9.45am	Why representation matters Liesl Tesch, NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Families and Communities, and Parliamentary Secretary for Disability Inclusion
9.55am	International Keynote Address: Why social infrastructure matters to inclusive disaster risk reduction Professor Daniel Aldrich, Director Security and Resilience Studies, Northeastern University
10.30am	Morning Tea
Session 1
11.00am	Interactive Roundtables: Enablers and barriers of Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness implementation Parvathi Subramaniam, P-CEP Course Coordinator, Centre for Disability Research and Policy
12.15pm	Lunch
Session 2
1.15pm	Panel Presentation: Disability Leadership through Co-design Moderator: Peter Tully, Lived Experience Co-Researcher, Centre for Disability Research and Policy Sam French, Senior Policy Officer, People with Disability Australia (PWDA) Michelle Moss, CEO, Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN)
1.30pm	Interactive Roundtables: Disability Inclusive Emergency Planning, overcoming the challenges to achieving community-led preparedness actions of multiple stakeholders Dr Jade Chang, Research Fellow, Centre for Disability Research and Policy
2.45pm	Afternoon Tea
Session 3
3.15pm	National Consistency for DIDRR Rina Bruinsma, Deputy Coordinator General, National Emergency Management Agency
3.30pm	Panel Discussion - Cross-sector Collaborative Actions on DIDRR Moderator: Margaret Moreton, Executive Director, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) Luke Barbagallo, Community Resilience & Recovery Coordinator, City of Coffs Harbour Council Leyla Craig, Disability Inclusion and Engagement Officer, Fire and Rescue NSW Jessica Innes, Executive Officer, Peppercorn Steve Lawrence , Community Engagement Coordinator, NSW State Emergency Services Mid North Coast
4.15pm	Forum Closing Remarks

More information

Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair accessible, visual impairment accessible and equipped with hearing augmentation technology. Live-captioning and AUSLAN-interpretation will also be available.

Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when you register.

Please let us know if you require accessible parking arrangements, or any other accessibility requirements, when you register or contact us at disabilitypolicy.centre@sydney.edu.au.

The National Forum on DIDRR is proudly supported by:

NEMA AIDR NSW Government University of Sydney