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Preparedness
  • Include criteria and policies related to disability inclusion in calls, proposals and contract agreements.
  • Ensure that staff are trained in inclusion of persons with disabilities and that a dedicated disability focal point is appointed. Prepare disability guidance for implementing partners using these guidelines.
  • Invest in preparedness and provide funding to support capacity development designed to ensure that all humanitarian stakeholders, including OPDs, are equipped and prepared to include persons with disabilities in humanitarian action.
  • Stipulate that reporting must include data collection on persons with disabilities, including on accessibility, the removal of barriers, and quality of services. Insist that data must be disaggregated by sex, age and disability.
Needs assessment and analysis
  • Support implementing partners to facilitate needs assessments and analyses that include persons with disabilities. These should address risks faced, access to protection and assistance, quality of services, and barriers.
Strategic response planning
  • Require implementing partners to design and include strategies on disability inclusion as part of funding requirements.
  • Promote and assist partners to develop approaches that identify, analyse and address the risks that persons with disabilities face.
Resource mobilization
  • Make inclusion of persons with disabilities a funding priority and allocate funding targets to promote their access and participation.
  • Use a disability marker along with other relevant markers, such as the gender and age marker, to assist selection and monitoring of proposals.
  • Create incentives for disability-inclusive programming in line with global participation commitments.
  • Ensure funding appeals are accessible to OPDs that represent the diversity of persons with disabilities. Adapt funding criteria, where required, to make local OPDs eligible.
Implementation and monitoring
  • Consult persons with disabilities when evaluating partners' programmes; discuss their access to assistance and protection.
  • Assess reports, or monitor implementing partners' performance, using criteria drawn from the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Provide feedback and recommendations to partners.
  • Monitor partners' efforts to include persons with disabilities.
Evaluation
  • Require partners to make the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities a systematic component of evaluations.
  • Disseminate the results of evaluations in multiple accessible formats.
  • Follow up evaluation recommendations on inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities.
  • Ensure that persons with disabilities participate in sectoral and intersectoral evaluation.
Coordination
  • Support the appointment of staff with relevant expertise in disability inclusion (as disability focal points, members of the humanitarian country teams, sector and cluster coordination mechanisms).
  • Encourage and support OPDs that represent the diversity of persons with disabilities to become involved in humanitarian interventions and coordination mechanisms.
Information management97
  • Require partners to disaggregate information, including information on barriers and their removal, by sex, age and disability.
  • Report on progress that is made to include persons with disabilities; share lessons learned and good practices.
  • Where information is not available on a crisis or on the exposure to risks of affected persons with disabilities, assist partners to collect data on disability.
  • Require that the collection, storage or processing of sensitive personal data is carried out in line with appropriate data ethics and protection principles.98