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Flow chart depicting how impacts of the crisis are exacerbated for persons with disabilities in protection. Impact of the crisis include insecurity, breakdown of social networks, destruction of infrastructure displacement, abandonment, closure of services. These impacts are exacerbated by barriers in the response including:
Environmental barriers:
- - Inaccessible protection services due to distance and inaccessible infrastructure and roads networks
- - Inaccessible reporting procedures (e.g. for GBV and PSEA)
- - Lack of outreach or accessible information regarding protection of rights, access to justice and reparations
Attitudinal barriers:
- - Negative attitudes and stigma against persons with disabilities and their rights
- - Lack of awareness about legal capacity of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making and provide informed consent
Institutional barriers:
- - Limited technical and financial capacity to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities and protection of their rights
- - Justice mechanisms are not accessible to persons with disabilities
- - Inaccessible registration systems resulting in denial of legal status for persons with disabilities
- - Lack of accurate data on persons with disabilities
The barriers in the response result in risk faced by persons with disabilities including violence, poverty, environmental hazards deterioration of health, exclusion, isolation, denial of rights.
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