It was super to be joined by Mary Keogh, Mahbub Kabir and Gordon Rattray for this session.
Mary is the Advocacy Director with CBM Global Disability Inclusion where she is responsible for leading the implementation of CBM’s advocacy strategy. She has worked in international development for over 15 years with a particular interest in developing and implementing evidenced based advocacy strategies (country and global level) focused on persons with disabilities linking intersectional, climate justice and human rights. Mary completed a PhD which was a comparative analysis on how governments mainstream disability in international development assistance. Mary is also an accredited mediator and is passionate about the power of mediation between community and advocacy groups for tackling complex challenges.
Mahbub is CBM Ireland’s Advocacy and Inclusion Advisory Manager. Mahbub holds a Masters in Anthropology and has many years of experience in the development sector. Whilst working in Bangladesh, he chaired the UNCRPD committee at the National Disability Forum (NFOWD), which successfully lobbied for full ratification of UNCRPD as well as changing rules and policies on disability. At CBM Ireland, Mahbub leads advocacy and advisory work - working closely with CBM Global teams to influence changes in policies and practices of key organisations that are impacting the lives of people with disabilities, especially in the Global South.
Gordon Rattray is a Programme Coordinator with the European Disability Forum (EDF) working on disability-inclusive humanitarian action, climate action and disaster risk reduction (DRR). Gordon has over 14 years of experience working in these areas, both at the European and International levels.
During this session, a number of helpful links were mentioned and shared, including:
CBM Global’s work around disability and the climate crisis: https://cbm-global.org/news/climate-crisis-and-persons-with-disabilities
The European Disability Forum’s work in this area: https://www.edf-feph.org/disability-and-climate-action/
UNDRR’s ‘Making Cities Resilient’ initiative: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/
UNDRR’s disaster resilience scorecard for cities (annex for inclusion of persons with disability): https://mcr2030.undrr.org/disability-inclusion-scorecard
An article around vulnerability and social justice: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/faculty-articles/116/
Important perspectives around intersectional climate justice and mental health from within and beyond South Asia: https://reframe2022.mhi.org.in/
We would like to thank UKRI and the Leverhulme Trust for making this session possible.