Summary of key elements: accountability to affected people and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse
Needs assessment and analysis
Needs assessment and analysis underpin the ability of a humanitarian response to scale up while retaining excellence and ensuringthat AAP remains fully integrated. Minimum recommended actions are to:
- Ensure that persons with disabilities are involved in needs assessments.
- Systematically include at least five qualitative questions in all assessment tools.
- Disaggregate data by sex, age and disability when analysing protection risks or barriers to access.
- Highlight the views, priorities and preferences of affected people and ensure that persons with disabilities are an integral subgroup in all needs analysis.
At the same time, use needs assessments to determine:
- The assistance delivery arrangements that persons with disabilities prefer (locations, times, etc.).
- The communication channels that persons with disabilities prefer (face-to-face, radio, SMS, other).
- Other contextual factors that could influence intervention strategies (including gender, access, protection, cultural and economic factors, etc.).
Implementation and monitoring
- Contact, employ and train persons with disabilities who can participate in implementation.
- Develop relevant technical, quality and accountability indicators for monitoring purposes.
- Develop feedback and complaint mechanisms that include persons with disabilities and are accessible to them.
- Regularly monitor the degree to which persons with disabilities, as a subgroup of the affected population, are satisfied by the quality and effectiveness of the humanitarian response.
Monitoring and reporting
- Identify the most appropriate technical standards and good practices, adapting them to the crisis context. Choose approaches that ensure the inclusion of all persons and groups with disabilities.
- Monitor and promote consistent use of agreed quality and technical standards.
- Collect, analyse and respond to monitoring data, including feedback from persons with disabilities.
- Ensure that persons with disabilities participate in monitoring the response.
- Based on feedback, make course corrections and adjustments to intervention strategies and plans.