Host Organisation

Asia Pacific Indigenous Women With Disabilities Network (APIWDN)

Outline

Indigenous persons and women with disabilities experience diverse and intersecting impacts of climate change, including displacement, loss of livelihoods, threats to cultural heritage, food insecurity, and increased disaster risks. Indigenous women with disabilities may face additional barriers arising from gender inequality, ableism, geographical isolation, poverty, and exclusion from climate decision-making. Yet these communities are not merely vulnerable populations. They are rights-holders, knowledge holders, advocates, and agents of change. Indigenous knowledge, community leadership, lived experiences, and locally led solutions can contribute to climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and resilient livelihoods. This side event seeks to shift the narrative from vulnerability to agency by centering Indigenous Peoples and women with disabilities as leaders and decision-makers in climate action. It will explore ways to strengthen their participation in climate governance, ensure access to climate finance, recognize Indigenous knowledge, and promote disability-inclusive climate policies and programs.

Speakers

1 Chungsion Koiren, India 2. Pi, AIPP 3. Representative, NIWA, 4 Representative, IDA

Languages

EN SP