CORE Partner Andrew Staniforth (SAHER EUROPE) recently published an article in Policing Insight highlighting the increased risk for vulnerable subjects to be exposed to disaster hazards. The evidence presented data collected from the CORE project and the campaign launched by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. 

Research from our project confirmed that vulnerable subjects have a higher chance of mortality during disasters often because of poor planning and preparation. Part of the research conducted in CORE on the impact of disasters on vulnerable groups (disabled people, elderly, poor, women, and children) led to key recommendations including the development in each Member State of a comprehensive register of vulnerable individuals to be made available to emergency service and kept updated regularly. 

The CORE project also recommends that all first responders from Member States countries be required to integrate targeted considerations and plans for vulnerable subjects in their disaster management strategies.

These types of recommendations will required a shift in the approaches of policymakers and disaster response planers and If applied, they will contribute to reinforce the preparedness to disasters by integrating into it the needs of the vulnerable groups. 

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