ADDC Bulletin: March 2022 edition

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ADDC Bulletin: March 2022 edition

ADDC NEWS

• Statement on Federal Budget: Funding cuts for people with disabilities sustained for third year in a row

IN THE NEWS

• CBM statement: Australia’s 2022 federal budget: disability inclusive development remains frozen at $9.6 million
• ACFID Federal Budget analysis
• Federal Election 2022: Australian Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance for a Changed World
• Ukraine Crisis: CBM Global Statement
• Remarks by SRSG Mizutori: Disability inclusive disaster risk reduction: still a tick marking exercise?
• UNAIDS: Towards a life of dignity for people living with disabilities
• Global Protection Cluster commitments and recommendations for humanitarian partners ahead of the Global Disability Summit (GDS)

NEW RESOURCES

• Video: Why is it important to identify the population with disabilities?
• Report: Photovoice study on women with disabilities in Nepal
• Analysis: Inclusive approaches to Disaster Risk Management
• Analysis: Mainstreaming Disability in Humanitarian Action 2021: A field study from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
• Article: “We’ll starve to death”: The consequences of COVID-19 over the lives of poor people with disabilities in rural Nepal

Webinar recordings

• Fostering Disability Inclusion through the UN SDGs
• Innovative practices in Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
• Promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities affected by humanitarian emergencies
• Disability inclusive disaster risk reduction: still a tick marking exercise?
• Investing in inclusive education to lessen social inequalities
• Webinar series by TCI: #WhatWENEED

YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED

• TCI call for memberships
• Call for proposals: Inclusive ‘Built back better’: Mental Health Responses to COVID-19 Phase II

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Perkins Early Connections Conference
• Microsoft Ability Summit
• 7th session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Disability in an Age of Conflict, Crisis and Climate Change
• Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on DRR

OPPORTUNITIES

• Program Assistant
• Admin and Finance Manager
• GDS Fellowship

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