Building inclusive risk management: Triggering change for community resilience
Places of ocurrence:
Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Implementing organizations:
SIA Desarrollo, Instituto Integral para la Gestión Social del Riesgo de Desastres, Centro de Gestión de Desarrollo, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero (CGD - UAGRO), Newcastle University CIDE.
Main objective:​
​Consolidate community risk management processes that consider social inequalities and inequities to create urban resilience.
Specific objectives:​
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Create in a participatory manner an inclusive evacuation protocol in case of Tropical Cyclones or Earthquakes in the Palma Sola neighborhood, which considers in particular people with disabilities, the elderly, and neurodivergent people.
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To address, through art therapy, the psychological impacts related to disasters that disproportionately affected women by providing them with the tools to cope with future events. .
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To explore the scalability of the processes carried out in Palma Sola, reflect on "infusion" processes in the Burócratas neighborhood and Acapulco and the articulations with the public sector and academia.