Meeting Documents

The IASC Task Team is opening a series of sector-specific Working Groups to develop content
for each sectorial chapter of the guidelines. Each working group will be supported by a consultant or a
working group lead (please refer to the "Call for Consultants" Terms of Reference for more information).

Task Team members, or members of their organizations, are invited to join one or more Working Groups.

Topics for the WGs will be the following (to be adapted according to interests and expertise available):  

• Food security and nutrition, including livelihood
• Health
• Water, sanitation and hygiene
• Protection
• Shelter & settlements
• Camp coordination and camp management
• Education in emergency
• Early recovery
• Operation support services (logistic and telecommunication
• Inter-agency coordination (inclusing cross-cutting issues such as data collection, etc). 

Tasks of the Working groups: 
Each Working Group will be providing expert inputs for the drafting of the sector chapter, based
on the findings from the consultancies and their own experiences, such as case studies and existing key resources that should be included as reference to the chapter. Furthermore, WG members will be expected to contribute in writing the chapter and ensuring that it follows both the sector standards and the appropriate input on inclusion of persons with disabilities within their sectors.

Please refer to the attached document for more information. 

A technical workshop considering issues related to collecting data on persons with disabilities in humanitarian contexts was organized jointly by UNICEF, Handicap International[1], the International Disability Alliance, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics and UNHCR was held in New York on 11-12 December 2017. It brought over forty specialists in humanitarian action together with statisticians with expertise in collecting data on persons with disability, representatives from organizations of persons with disabilities (or DPOs) and United Nations agencies.

This was the first meeting of its kind that sought to build bridges between the different communities who share a common interest to improve humanitarian action for persons with disabilities, but who bring very different skill sets and perspectives into the conversation. 

Main objectives of the event were to create a common foundation on needs and entry points for data on persons with disabilities, to discuss experiences from the field, to consider different humanitarian action scenarios; and to come up with priority recommendations for next steps. 

Please read more about the discussions in the attached Report, which is also due to inform the Guidelines on inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. Data issues will be discussed in the TT Working Group on "inter-agency coordination". In case you wish to sign-up to participate or contribute to this discussion, please contact the IASC TT secretariat. 

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