Programme

EESC permanent Group on Disability Rights

Hybrid Hearing on

Disability - inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Reponses

Tuesday, 15 October from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

Interactio and Room VMA 22, 2nd Floor, EESC Building, Rue Van Maerlant 2, Brussels, Belgium

09.00 a.m. - 09.30 a.m. | Testing connections

09.30 a.m. - 09.40 a.m. | Welcome and introduction by Christophe Lefevre, president of the EESC Permanent Group on Disability rights (PG DIS)

09.40 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Panel 1 - Current trends and practices of the EU and International Organisations

Moderator: EESC PG DIS Member

Interventions by:

  • Ioannis Vardakastanis, Rapporteur of the EES Opinion "The climate crisis and its effect on vulnerable groups"
  • Anna Battistutta, Policy Officer, DG ECHO, European Commission
  • Stefanie Dannenmann-Di Palma, External Relations Officer & UN Strategy for Persons with Disability focal point for UNDRR, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
  • Ricardo Pla Cordero, Protection Officer on Ageing and Disability Inclusion, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Representative, IOM

Q&A

11.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. | Coffee break

11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Panel 2 - Practices and recommendations of OPDs and Member States

Moderator: EESC PG DIS Member

  • Nadia Hadad, Executive Committee, European Disability Forum (EDF)
  • Dovilė Juodkaitė, International cooperation office at the Lithuanian Disability Forum (LDF), Board Member of EDF and EESC member
  • Representative from Netherlands
  • Representative from Romania
  • Marica Miric, Executive Director, Croatian Union of Associations of Persons with Disabilities (SOIH)Q&A

12.45 p.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Closing remarks by Christophe Lefevre, president of the EESC Permanent Group on Disability rights (PG DIS)

Interpretation requested from English, French, Czech, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak and Italian into English, French, Polish, Italian and International sign language.