Leave No One Behind: The Intersect between Climate, Disability and Gender

The African Disability Forum (ADF), in partnership with DevTransform and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), invites you to a critical hybrid side event during the Second African Climate Summit (ACS2).

As climate disasters intensify across Africa, women and persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected, yet they remain largely excluded from climate policy, financing, and action. This session will spotlight the urgent need to bridge the gap at the climate–gender–disability intersection.

• 📆 Date: 10 September 2025
• 🕒 Time: 12:00–13:00 (East Africa Time)
• 📌 Platform: Zoom
• ✏️ Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d81h01ChTuqHc3K-QFGKLw

This Side Event Asks:

• What is the interface between disability, gender and climate?
• How can Africa’s climate policies, budgets, and programmes become truly disability inclusive?
• What does it mean to centre the agency of those most affected, not as victims, but as right holders, contributors and leaders?

Objectives of the Side Event:

• Examine gaps in ODA and domestic financing for the climate–gender–disability interface.
• Expose the disproportionate impact of climate crises on girls and women in particular and persons with disabilities in general.
• Identify strategies to mainstream disability and gender in climate action across policy, financing and implementation.
• Centre African knowledge and lived experiences of persons with disabilities in global climate justice discussions.

Speakers include:

• (Moderator) Mr. Elvis Lundberg, UNICEF
• Mr. Jeleel Auberon Odoom, African Disability Forum (ADF)
• Ms. Martha Bekele, DevTransform
• Ms. Ruth Mkutumula, Disabled Women in Africa (DIWA)
• Ms. Robinah Alambuya, Triumph, Uganda
• Ms. Hope Okuthe, PACJA, Kenya
• Mr. Bonface Massah, Africa Albinism Network
• Ms. Emmanuelle Tchotchom, African Disability Forum (ADF)

Expected outcomes:

• Visibility and ensuring voice for an under-researched and underfunded area in climate justice.
• Concrete recommendations for disability inclusive financing and climate action strategies.
• Strengthened alliances between feminist, disability and climate justice movements.
• Contributions to ongoing policy work around COP30, the Loss and Damage Fund and climate finance frameworks.

👉 Register now: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d81h01ChTuqHc3K-QFGKLw

Sign Language and French interpretation will be available.