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Diagram 8 Barriers to access and inclusion in food security and nutrition

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Flow chart depicting how impacts of the crisis are exacerbated for persons with disabilities in food security and nutrition.

Impact of crisis includes destruction of infrastructure, displacement, insecurity, breakdown of social networks, closure of services. These impacts are exacerbated by barriers in the response including:

Environmental barriers

  • - Inaccessible and unsafe food distribution points
  • - Lack of accessible information and communication related to food entitlement, distribution and nutrition programmes
  • - Inaccessible transportation, buildings and food package formats

Attitudinal barriers:

  • - First responders lack awareness and knowledge about persons with disabilities
  • - Lack of awareness and knowledge about specific nutrition requirements of persons with disabilities

Institutional barriers:

  • - Lack of technical capacity to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in food security and nutrition policies and programmes
  • - Government food security and nutrition policies and programmes are not inclusive of persons with disabilities
  • - Lack of accurate data on persons with disabilities and their locations

The barriers in the response result in risk faced by persons with disabilities including violence, poverty, environmental hazards, deterioration of health, exclusion, isolation, difficulty accessing food assistance, malnutrition.

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