| Preparedness | Response | Recovery |
1. Assessment, analysis and planning |
Assess the accessibility of skills training, apprenticeships and financial service providers, and markets and market-related information, for persons with different types of disability. | | X | X |
Identify OPDs who might help identify, access and support persons with disabilities. | X | X | X |
Identify and analyse risks related to livelihoods for persons with different types of disability and plan risk mitigation measures. | X | X | X |
Assess the psychosocial requirements and literacy and numeracy of persons with disabilities, in order to support those who have not had a livelihood or access to education. | | X | X |
Identify referral services that are available in the target area. Include psychosocial support, physical rehabilitation, prosthetics, orthotics, etc. | | X | X |
Ensure that livelihood targeting criteria adequately address differences in the character and severity of disabilities. | | X | X |
Provide training on inclusive livelihoods for INGO staff and other stakeholders. Include vocational trainers, farmers’ associations, women’s groups, business persons, local councils, private companies, third-party monitors, etc. | | X | X |
2. Resource mobilization |
Hire persons with disabilities to join the project team. As role models, they may encourage others with a disability to participate in the programme. | X | X | X |
Mobilize resources; apply them to prepare adaptive tools, make infrastructure accessible, organize additional trainings (for example on literacy and numeracy), and provide transport and other technical support (physical rehabilitation, assistive devices). | X | X | X |
3. Implementation |
To address negative perceptions, make the community more aware of the capacities of persons with disabilities and the contributions that they make to the community. | | X | X |
Inform the families of persons with disabilities of the rights and capacities of persons with disabilities, including their right and capacity to work. | X | X | X |
Persuade and encourage employers, local leaders and government bodies to respect the rights of persons with disabilities, including their right to have full access to livelihoods. | X | X | X |
Make sure that humanitarian actors understand that persons with disabilities are individuals with a variety of experience, knowledge and capacities. Make sure they are not stereotyped or placed in stereotypical roles. For instance, a woman with a hearing impairment may be able to do physically demanding work. | X | X | X |
Work with financial service providers; assist them to adapt their products to the requirements of persons with disabilities. | | X | X |
Assist vocational or business skills training centres to make the curricula and courses they offer accessible to persons with different types of disability. | | X | X |
In workplaces, provide tools that have been adapted for use by persons with disabilities. | X | | X |
Consider adapting community infrastructures (such as markets and training institutes) to make them more accessible. | | X | X |
Teach project staff how to interact with and support persons with various types of disability. | | X | X |
Develop outreach and community-based processes that can identify and connect with persons with disabilities who are not ‘visible’. | X | | |
Cooperate with OPDs and other actors that support persons with disabilities to design and deliver inclusive livelihood and economic security assessments. These should identify barriers to the delivery of assessments as well as barriers to the implementation of programmes. | X | X | |
Recovery 4. Coordination |
Assign an inclusion expert to the Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster. He or she should assist sector partners to mainstream inclusion and support referrals across relevant sectors. | X | X | |
5. Monitoring and evaluation |
Involve OPDs and persons with disabilities in monitoring humanitarian and protection indicators. Indicators should disaggregated by sex, age and disability. | | X | |
Ensure that beneficiary feedback mechanisms are accessible and include persons with various types of disability. | | X | |
Systematically ensure that livelihood programmes are accountable to persons with disabilities. Information, dissemination modalities, and complaint and feedback mechanisms should be accessible. Persons with disabilities should be able to participate in decision-making and planning processes. | | X | X |
Identify good practices and initiatives that have successfully promoted the inclusion of persons with disabilities. Document and disseminate these. | | | X |