| Preparedness | Response | Recovery |
1. Assessment, analysis and planning |
Through participatory analysis, identify barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from realizing their HLP rights. Disaggregate the data by sex and age. Include persons living in institutions. | | X | X |
Work with OPDs and legal experts to clarify the forms of discrimination that persons with disabilities face. Identify legal avenues of recourse. | X | X | X |
With OPDs, map local services (such as in-home and community support services) that enable and assist persons with disabilities to live independently. | X | X | X |
Ensure that planning covers the requirements of persons with disabilities, and the risks they encounter. Involve persons with disabilities in setting priorities for housing, land and property. | X | X | X |
2. Resource mobilization |
Ensure that proposals and concept notes that examine legal capacity and literacy include persons with disabilities. | X | X | |
3. Implementation |
Support networks that call for persons with disabilities to have equal access to HLP rights in humanitarian situations. Encourage campaigns that affirm HLP rights and campaigns that affirm the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). | | X | X |
Integrate case studies and discussions of disability in core trainings for staff involved in HLP programmes. Include community outreach staff, protection focal points, and committees. | X | X | X |
When allocating safe emergency shelter, consider giving priority to groups that are particularly at risk, including persons with disabilities. | | X | |
Improve accessibility to housing, housing services and infrastructure, including transport. (See the section on Shelter and settlements for more guidance.) | | X | X |
Work with OPDs to advocate for restitution of property without discrimination. The right of persons with disabilities to own property should be recognized; they should also enjoy access to information and legal aid. | | X | X |
Ensure that persons with disabilities can make restitution claims and that procedures for restitution are accessible. Provide information and training to improve legal literacy; assist people with disabilities who need support to complete claims procedures. | | X | X |
Ensure that, when refugees and internally displaced persons are asked to report on their use, ownership, residence in, and possession of land and property in their country of origin, persons with disabilities are asked the same questions. (Disaggregate the data by sex and age.) | | X | X |
Include persons with disabilities in any processes that assist refugees and internally displaced persons to obtain access to HLP documentation. | | X | X |
Connect displaced persons, OPDs and civil society organizations, including tenants' associations, that advocate for HLP rights. | | X | X |
Ensure that monitoring and reporting mechanisms report violations of the HLP rights of persons with disabilities. | X | X | X |
4. Coordination |
Include persons with disabilities as a standing agenda item in HLP coordination meetings. | | X | X |
Engage persons with disabilities and OPDs in HLP coordination meetings. Provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate their meaningful participation. | | X | X |
5. Monitoring and evaluation |
Integrate data on persons with disabilities in household-level monitoring tools. | | X | |