WORLD

POPULATION DAY
11TH JULY, 2015

VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN EMERGENCIES

Dr. Ninad Jhala
Ph.D, MSW, BSW, NET, DHR, CHS, CBD, CFA, CMR, CFSD, CSTD

Assistant Professor & Development Consultant

ILSASS
99250 23069
nsjhala@gmail.com

VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN
EMERGENCIES

VULNERABILITY IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH A

POPULATION, INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION
IS UNABLE TO ANTICIPATE, COPE WITH,
RESIST AND RECOVER FROM THE IMPACTS OF
DISASTERS.

 EMERGENCY
Those unexpected organizational, social &
emotional disruptions & subsequent losses in
people's normal life that are triggered by the
sudden occurrence of human-induced or natural
disasters and with which they are unable to fully
cope without outside assistance.
VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
Women, Dalits, Adviasi, Children, Aged,
Specially Abled, Poor, Migrants, PLWHA,
LGBT, Labouers, Slum dwellers, Addicts, ...

 40 MILLION DISPLACED.
OF THESE 75 % - WOMEN
& ADOLESCENT GIRLS

WHAT CAN WE
DO ??

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