Recommended actions

Preparedness Response Recovery
1. Assessment, analysis and planning
Ensure that persons with disabilities are included in community consultations on GBV. Consultations should be age- and gender-appropriate. Employ participatory methods to identify barriers to access and take steps to make GBV activities and services accessible to persons with disabilities.182 X X
Assess the attitudes and assumptions to disability inclusion of GBV programme staff and service providers.183 X X
Map local OPDs. Identify who they represent and the degree to which they have the capacity to work on safe identification and referral of GBV survivors to appropriate services.184 Take steps to fill gaps in capacity. X X
Ensure that planning addresses the gender and disability-specific requirements of persons with disabilities, as well as the risks and violations of human rights that they experience. Invite persons with disabilities to help define GBV sector priorities. X X X
2. Resource mobilization
Develop proposals that address the GBV risks of women, men, girls and boys with disabilities. X X X
Secure financing and prepare inclusive budgets that allocate resources to improve accessibility and inclusion. X X
3. Implementation
Recruit persons with disabilities as staff, volunteers and community mobilizers. Take steps to achieve gender balance in GBV activities.185 X X X
Integrate and mainstream content about persons with disabilities in core GBV training packages. Add case studies and discussions of disability to practitioner training and community awareness-raising materials.186 X X
Train local OPDs, in particular women-led OPDs, in how to safely identify and refer GBV survivors. X X X
Strengthen national policies and protocols, including standard operating procedures, case management systems and referral systems. Ensure they adopt a survivor-centred approach and provide responsible, compassionate and confidential care to GBV survivors with disabilities. X X X
Establish safe, accessible and confidential complaint mechanisms. These should comply with protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) standards.187 X X X
Ensure that engineers and architects adopt universal design principles when women's centres, health clinics, safe houses and transportation systems are constructed.188 X X X
Facilitate the participation of women and girls with disabilities in peace negotiations and peace-building, in line with international commitments.189 X
4. Coordination
Include disability and persons with disabilities as a standing agenda item in GBV coordination meetings. X X
5. Monitoring and evaluation
Monitor how many persons with disabilities (disaggregated by sex and age) attend GBV activities.190 X
Data information management systems, such as the Gender-Based Violence Information Management System, should be disaggregated by sex, age and disability, in line with safe and ethical practices for the collection and dissemination of GBV data. This will make it possible to determine whether particular gender and age groups of persons with disabilities are excluded. X X