Key elements – must do
‘Must do’ actions must be undertaken throughout intersectoral and sectoral coordination in all phases of humanitarian actionfor inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Participation
- Ensure that persons with disabilities, their families and OPDs are actively involved in coordination mechanisms, intersectoral needs assessments, and the development of Humanitarian Needs Overviews and Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs).
- Ensure that the diversity of the population of persons with disabilities is fairly represented. Consider the various forms of disability, and gender and age. Make concerted efforts to promote underrepresented groups, including persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, indigenous persons, women and girls.
Addressing barriers
- When conducting needs assessments, identify barriers and risks that persons with disabilities face.
- When developing humanitarian response plans, draw on qualitative as well as quantitative information on persons with disabilities in order to identify persons with disabilities, the risks and barriers they face, and means to mitigate or remove these barriers.
Empowerment and capacity development
- Ensure that coordination mechanisms include OPDs in their capacity-building initiatives.
- Build the capacity of coordination personnel on disability inclusion. Incorporate components on disability inclusion in coordination trainings.
- Establish intersectoral referral pathways that increase the inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Data collection and monitoring
- Share available data on sector-related requirements of persons with disabilities and engage in joint intersectoral analysis to achieve a holistic understanding of their situation and requirements.
- Where reliable data are unavailable or cannot be collected, apply the 15 per cent estimate of global disability prevalence.
- Ensure that humanitarian response plans explicitly reference disability across sectors, and clearly recommend that targets and indicators should disaggregate data by disability.
- Ensure that the HCT's periodic monitoring reports routinely cover the situation of persons with disabilities (including their access to humanitarian assistance, the challenges they face, achievements, and lessons learned).
- Share information on persons with disabilities (disaggregated by sex, age and disability) in intersectoral dashboards and reporting, using multiple accessible formats.