Humanity & Inclusion has created a learning toolkit to improve the collection of quality data on persons withdisabilities and improve its use by humanitarian organisations.
To ensure people with disabilities are consistently and systematically included in international development and humanitarian assistance, the Global Disability Summit will galvanize the global effort to address disability inclusion in the poorest countries in the world, and act as the start point for major changes on this neglected issue.Objectives of the Summit:
Event ReviewThematic presentation on disability inclusion, sports for development and rehabilitationHumanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW)Thursday 8 February 2018 (12.30pm to 1.30pm)
The World Congress, under the high patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, will take place in Paris from 23 to 27 July 2019 and is expected to attract over 3 000 participants. The WFD expects it to be the largest gathering of deaf and hard hearing people ever held in Europe!
On 6 December, the European Disability Forum (EDF), CBM International and Handicap International organised an event in the European Parliament on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. In this occasion, the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides announced new measures to support people with disabilities in crises, especially the development of EU standards in all EU humanitarian projects.
Reaching for the Future: Humanitarianism in 2030Featuring a Keynote Speech by Ms. Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AMECOSOC Chamber, UN Headquarters, New York
Consultation: The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities03 October 2017- Palais des Nations, Geneva (3.30- 6pm)
On World Humanitarian Day (19 August 2017), UK-based disability charity CBM launched a new smartphone mobile app "Humanitarian Hands on Tool, (HHoT), to provide step-by-step guidance on how to implement an inclusive emergency response. HHoT is a web application with simple one-page guidelines which explain the basic "how-to" details in simple language and images concerning all issues relevant to the design and implementation of inclusive humanitarian action. Easy to use and fully accessible, this is the first application of its kind.
A vacancy announcement has been advertised on the UNICEF website, in order to identify a consultant who will be responsible for drafting the initial content of the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.
