Theme: Road to 2030: Unpacking Challenges and Opportunities of the DisAbility-Climate Change Nexus

Scheduled for June 1, 2024 at the University of Botswana, the workshop’s objectives are to: i) highlight the disproportionate impacts of climate change on persons with disabilities (both mental and physical disabilities), ii) discuss possible pathways of protecting learners’ rights to quality and inclusive education in an era of climate change, iii) proffer climate justice solutions for children with disabilities (from the point of view of educators), iv) give an overview of climate actions by and inclusive of persons with disabilities in Botswana, v) contribute to climate action policies by exploring ways to include people living with disabilities, and vi) recommend ways of accessing information, resources, and services to effectively respond to climate change.

The workshop comes at a time when the world is past the mid-point of the 2030 Agenda, yet only 15 percent of the assessable SDG targets are on track. We therefore view the #DW24 project as a strategy that enables BSHD and its valued stakeholders to significantly contribute to the improvement of Botswana’s largely stagnating Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets. One of our main concerns being good health and wellbeing.