Improved Resilience of Children with Disabilities through DRR

The project seeks to raise the profile of people with disabilities, elderly and their family members with the selected communities also benefitting from the intervention. The objective is to increase the resilience of the target group by reducing the risk of disaster by improving the capacity of KFPD (Korean Foundation for the Protection of the Disabled) and other relevant stakeholders to protect the most vulnerable and institutions catering from them from the effects of natural disasters.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Humanitarian aid
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO Handicap International
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    385’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    384’046
Project phases	Phase 2 01.06.2017 - 31.05.2020   (Completed) Phase 1 01.03.2016 - 28.02.2017   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	EMERGENCY RESPONSE DISASTER PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Material relief assistance and services Disaster prevention and preparedness
  Cross-cutting topics	Human rights
  Aid Type	Project and programme contribution
  Project number	7F09556