| Preparedness | Response | Recovery |
1. Assessment, analysis and planning |
Ensure that protection assessments consult persons with disabilities. Include them in focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Assessments should identify groups at heightened risk of protection violations and disability-related discrimination, and persons who may face barriers to accessing protection services. Include persons with disabilities who are isolated or confined to their homes or communities. | X | X | X |
Ensure that planning considers the risks that persons with disabilities face, the barriers that impede them from accessing protection services, and specific actions that may be required to remove those barriers. Ask persons with disabilities to help define protection sector priorities. | X | X | X |
2. Resource mobilization |
Ensure that all proposals or concept notes identify and analyse the protection risks and the capacities of women, men, girls and boys with disabilities. Ensure that interventions promote their protection and participation. | X | X | |
Establish inclusive budgeting processes. Allocate resources to improve accessibility and inclusion. | | X | X |
3. Implementation |
Develop outreach activities, including community-based outreach, to reach individuals who are isolated in their homes or institutions. | X | X | X |
Include case studies and discussions of disability in core trainings for protection staff, community outreach staff, protection focal points and protection committees. | X | X | |
Communicate information on protection, and about complaint and feedback mechanisms, in multiple and accessible formats. Take steps to include individuals who are isolated in their homes or in institutions or who rely on support persons for communication. | X | X | X |
Take steps to assist persons with disabilities to obtain personal documentation. Publicize the importance of marriage and birth registration; organize mobile registration for refugees and other displaced populations, including persons with disabilities; make legal case management available to persons with disabilities who lack access to civil documentation. | X | X | X |
Ensure that family tracing and reunification services identify and respect the wishes of persons with disabilities who have become separated. | | X | X |
Include residents of institutions in protection-related activities and ensure they have access to all the information that is provided to other members of the affected population. | X | X | X |
Monitor and report on violations of the rights of persons with disabilities. Include targeted violence, forced medical treatment, disability-related discrimination and barriers to accessing protection services. Follow cases up and remove barriers that impede or deter persons with disabilities from accessing protection services or reporting violations. | X | X | X |
Design and implement protection interventions for persons with disabilities that assessments have found to be at risk. (Assessments need to be gender and age sensitive.) | X | X | X |
Work with OPDs and influential community members (traditional and religious leaders, educators, local media) to challenge norms and attitudes towards persons with disabilities that perpetuate discrimination and other violations of human rights. | X | X | X |
Provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries to strengthen the national legal and policy framework. Make sure persons with disabilities, especially women and children, are protected from violence. | X | X | X |
4. Coordination |
Include disability and persons with disabilities as a standing agenda item in protection coordination meetings. | | X | X |
Engage persons with disabilities and OPDs in protection coordination meetings and provide reasonable accommodations to enable them to do so meaningfully. | | X | X |
5. Monitoring and evaluation |
Document and report progress on the achievement of protection outcomes that reduce risks to affected persons. | | X | X |