| Preparedness | Response | Recovery |
1. Assessment, analysis and planning |
Identify key information on the situations of persons with disabilities, including whether government food security and nutrition policies and programmes are inclusive. Analyse risks and barriers that impede persons with disabilities from accessing food security and nutrition. | X | | |
Map information and resources on food and nutrition that are relevant to persons with disabilities (expertise, markets, accessibility of services) at community, district and national level. Use this information when planning. | X | | |
When conducting food security and nutrition assessments, involve persons with disabilities in affected communities. | | X | |
Conduct targeted assessments of the food security and nutrition requirements of persons with disabilities. Focus on children, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons with disabilities. Consider assisted eating and dietary requirements, and the nutritional quality of foods, including processed foods (proteins and other nutrients). Identify the types of food required (such as liquid foods) and adapt the size and format of food packages accordingly. | X | X | |
Include questions on the capacities and requirements of persons with disabilities in mainstream assessment processes and tools. Consider nutritional status, barriers to and enablers of food security, nutrition, livelihood activities, facilities, and related information. | X | X | |
2. Resource mobilization |
Encourage humanitarian actors to mobilize adequate resources for food security and nutrition. Resources should be reliably available during emergency preparedness and throughout the response and should be accessible to persons with disabilities. | X | | |
Allocate and mobilize resources for inclusive food security and nutrition interventions that are accessible to and target persons with disabilities. Set up coordination arrangements. Allocate sufficient resources in the budget to cover accessibility and inclusion costs. | | X | X |
3. Implementation |
Make community members aware of how important it is to adopt a disability-inclusive approach to food security and nutrition, during emergency preparedness, contingency planning, response and recovery. | X | X | |
Prepare a contingency plan that sets out the initial response strategy and the operational plan to meet urgent food and nutrition needs during the first three to four weeks of an emergency; ensure it includes persons with disabilities and covers transport and food rations. | X | | |
Involve OPDs and other actors who work with persons with disabilities in designing and delivering an inclusive food security and nutrition assessment. Identify barriers to delivering the assessment and to implementing interventions. | | X | |
Assess the capacity of staff with respect to disability inclusion. Provide training to staff and partners, including emergency managers and first responders. Trainings should explain the rights and requirements of persons with disabilities and make clear that disability needs to be integrated in food security and nutrition-related preparedness plans. | X | | |
Find ways to reach marginalized and isolated affected populations, including persons who have psychosocial disabilities, who are not mobile, or who face other barriers. Consider outreach and community-based distribution processes both to prepare and deliver food. | | X | X |
Partner with relevant actors to design an inclusive food security and nutrition programme and to advocate for an inclusive approach to sectoral and cross-sectoral activities. | X | X | |
Develop a community approach. Identify staff who will support persons with disabilities to access food rations (on site and via outreach). Provide reasonable accommodations; include assistance with transport, and childcare for parents of children with disabilities and for parents with disabilities. | X | X | |
Ensure that vendors, other distribution points and markets, and nutrition services and other facilities, meet the ‘Reach, Enter, Circulate and Use’ criteria of accessibility. | | X | |
Train relevant local and national staff on good nutrition practices for persons with disabilities. | | | X |
Work with national systems that have responsibility for food security and nutrition, including social protection systems, to put in place arrangements for supporting persons with disabilities after the emergency ends. Establish clear referral mechanisms for persons with disabilities who require food security and nutrition-related support. | | | X |
Advise government counterparts and other national stakeholders on how to integrate disability-inclusive practices in relevant national food security and nutrition programmes and trainings. | | | X |
Advise on accessibility compliance during the construction, reconstruction and repair of nutrition-related infrastructure. Include sites that deliver nutrition and food security-related services. | | | X |
4. Coordination |
Promote knowledge and skills on disability. Include disability in the terms of reference of food security and nutrition-related emergency rosters and other surge capacity mechanisms. Do so at all levels. | X | | |
Work with communication colleagues, disability experts and OPDs to develop inclusive community-based approaches and accessible information on food security and nutrition. | | X | |
In consultation with OPDs and relevant health and nutrition actors, adapt the food basket to meet the nutritional and eating needs of persons with disabilities who find it difficult to eat, chew or swallow, or have specific dietary requirements. | | X | |
At sectoral level, work with relevant sectors to create referral pathways to meet the food security and nutrition needs of persons with disabilities. | | X | |
Work with national actors, including ministries and service providers, to make persons with disabilities more resilient with respect to food security and nutrition. Strengthen food security and nutrition policies and laws; ensure they include persons with disabilities. | | | X |
5. Monitoring and evaluation |
Ensure feedback and complaint mechanisms are accessible and include persons with disabilities. | | X | |
Include persons with disabilities in monitoring and evaluation teams. | | X | |
Identify or develop disability-specific indicators to monitor the food security and nutritional status of persons with disabilities. | | X | |
Assess the degree to which food security and nutrition interventions and facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities. Include temporary ones. Take steps to make all interventions and facilities accessible. | | X | |
Document and report progress towards meeting the food security and nutrition needs of persons with disabilities. Describe progress in cross-sectoral monitoring and reporting (situation reports and dashboards). | | X | |
List ‘inclusion of persons with disabilities’ among the criteria for evaluations of food security and nutrition programmes and activities. | | X | |
Systematically ensure that food security and nutrition interventions are accountable to persons with disabilities by making information accessible, establishing complaint and feedback mechanisms, and involving persons with disabilities in decision- making and planning processes. | | X | |
Document lessons learned with respect to the inclusion of persons with disabilities in food security and nutrition interventions. | | | X |