Preparedness | - Consult, include and partner with disability focal points, persons with disabilities, and OPDs that represent the diversity of persons with disabilities, during all stages of disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness programmes.
- Organize awareness-raising and capacity development on inclusion of persons with disabilities for staff and partners, in partnership with OPDs.
- Support OPDs to build and strengthen their capacity to work in humanitarian action at all levels: administrative, human resources, accountability, financial management, proposal writing.
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Needs assessment and analysis | - Analyse the factors that contribute to risks that persons with disabilities in affected populations face. With respect to needs assessment, identify barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from accessing assistance and protection, and enablers that facilitate access to assistance and protection.
- Make needs assessment processes accessible to persons with disabilities. Offer reasonable accommodations where needed to simplify and facilitate collection of information from and by persons with disabilities.
- Ensure that persons with a range of disabilities participate as key informants in focus groups and needs assessment teams.
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Strategic response planning | - Make sure that meeting the requirements of persons with disabilities is among the objectives of the humanitarian response plan. Design and include indicators that measure the inclusion of persons with disabilities.
- Adopt a twin-track plan to implement projects and strategies that ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy equitable access to assistance and protection. For this purpose, consider outreach, home-based services, accessible infrastructures, reasonable accommodations, etc.
- Liaise and develop partnerships with disability-focused organizations, service providers, and OPDs that represent the diversity of persons with disabilities.
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Resource mobilization | - Build an inclusive budget that recognizes the importance of accessibility and reasonable accommodations. Involve OPDs and disability focal points in setting priorities and determining the resources that will be needed to remove barriers that persons with disabilities face when they try to obtain assistance and protection.
- Hire persons with disabilities and persons skilled in disability issues as staff or consultants.
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Implementation and monitoring | - Ensure that activity monitoring uses disability-inclusive indicators, disaggregated by sex, age and disability.
- Systematically review and analyse the degree to which persons of concern can access programmes and take corrective measures when required.
- Report on the barriers and risks that persons with disabilities face when they try to access humanitarian assistance and protection. Share good practices; disseminate and apply standards and tools.
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Evaluation | - Seek advice from OPDs that represent the diversity of persons with disabilities when designing, planning and implementing evaluations that include questions related to disability (protection, safety and equal access).
- Ensure that persons with disabilities have access to evaluation processes and can actively participate in them.
- Disseminate evaluation reports in a range of accessible formats. Use their findings to adjust programming as needed.
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Coordination | - Involve OPDs that represent the diversity of persons with disabilities in coordination mechanisms.
- Promote inter-cluster collaboration on disability inclusion. Establish referral pathways; promote cross-learning activities; offer training by sectoral experts and OPDs.
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Information management | - Ensure that data related to disability measure and report on outcomes, outputs and indicators defined in humanitarian response plans.
- Train staff to collect and analyse disability-related data, including on barriers to inclusion and factors that enable inclusion.
- Create or adapt tools to capture information that report the degree to which persons with disabilities can access assistance and protection programmes and participate in response activities that are relevant to them.
- Ensure that the collection, storage and processing of sensitive personal data is carried out in line with appropriate data ethics and protection principles.
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