Recommended actions

Preparedness Response Recovery
1. Assessment, analysis and planning
Train staff to identify barriers and protection risks, related to cash-based interventions, that persons with disabilities face. X
Map existing social protection programmes and assess the accessibility of administrative procedures and processes. Assess whether they will cope if humanitarian programming is scaled up. Modify programme objectives accordingly and plan measures to address administrative barriers. X
Identify potential barriers to inclusion of persons with disabilities in cash-based interventions (for example, physically inaccessible markets). X X X
Map partners that are already working with persons with disabilities; establish new partnerships and work with OPDs, as well as leaders with disabilities, to identify and remove barriers and risks that persons with disabilities face. X
Assess the degree to which markets are physically accessible to persons with disabilities, and the ease with which persons with disabilities can obtain market information. X X X
Analyse market systems and services that might help to protect persons with disabilities. Consider alternative care, health, assistive devices, legal services, accessible transport, and education. Assess how persons with disabilities currently access these services and the barriers they face. X X
Consider the costs and risks persons with disabilities may face if they have to rely on intermediaries to pick up and deliver goods. X X
Assess how cash can be used to remove barriers and strengthen the resilience of households that include persons with disabilities. X X X
Plan how market actors can be helped to make their markets and services more accessible to persons with disabilities (for instance by improving physical or communications accessibility).81 X
Assess the degree to which financial and technology solutions are accessible to persons with disabilities. X X
Consider other disability-related costs, including additional costs that households including persons with disabilities may incur when they access cash (transport costs, assistive devices, etc.). X X
Provide clear information, in accessible formats and in plain language, on the delivery of cash-based interventions, their duration, and alternative programmes that are available. X X X
Ensure that financial institutions are prepared to make cash interventions accessible to persons with disabilities. Ensure they are willing to undergo vulnerability assessments. X
2. Resource mobilization
Assess whether social protection programmes for persons with disabilities can be delivery mechanisms. X X
3. Implementation
Ensure that all affected people have equal opportunities to access cash-for-work programmes and are paid the same for work of equal value. Do not channel persons with disabilities into lower paid or less desirable work on grounds of disability. X
Ensure that the environments and working conditions of cash-for-work and food-for-work programmes are accessible to persons with disabilities. X X
Choose distribution sites that are safe and accessible to persons with disabilities. X X
Consider setting up ‘market fairs’ or itinerant markets in areas that are remote or difficult to access, so that persons with disabilities who live in those areas can participate. X
Assess whether naming a person with a disability as the registered beneficiary might place that person at risk. X
Clearly communicate assistance objectives. In doing so, seek to mitigate stigma, myths or envy that persons with disabilities who receive benefits may be subject to. X X X
Consider alternative delivery mechanisms, such as outreach programmes or home delivery, that allow persons with disabilities to collect assistance themselves. X X X
4. Coordination
Involve OPDs in protection and cash coordination efforts, for example in the Protection Cluster and Cash Working Group. X X X
Link up with national programmes and systems that offer cash transfers to persons with disabilities. X
Coordinate with other sectors to ensure that cash-based interventions facilitate access for persons with disabilities to other humanitarian services (such as child-friendly spaces or education). X X X
5. Monitoring and evaluation
Regularly collect feedback from persons with a range of disabilities, and of different age and gender, on the barriers and risks they face when they access cash transfers. X X
During post-distribution monitoring, consult persons with different disabilities to identify the barriers they face when they access beneficiary registration systems. X
Conduct accessibility audits of service delivery mechanisms and feedback and complaint mechanisms. X
Conduct accessibility audits of markets and propose modifications that will make them more accessible. X
Disaggregate individual data by sex, age and disability at a minimum, using tools tested in humanitarian contexts, such as the Washington Group Short Set of Disability Questions. X
Adopt accessible methods and procedures for enabling persons with disabilities to consent to use of their data. Make sure they know with whom their data is being shared (for example, other humanitarian organizations, the government, etc.). X