ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action developedthese Guidelines through a consultative, participatory and inclusive process. They reflect the input of more than 600 stakeholdersacross the disability, humanitarian and development sectors.

The development process was overseen by the IASC Task Team co-chairs: Georgia Dominik (International Disability Alliance),Gopal Mitra (UNICEF) and Ricardo Pla Cordero and Ulrike Last (Humanity & Inclusion). Valerie Scherrer was the lead consultantfor development of the Guidelines with significant contribution from Asma Maladwala (UNICEF).

The co-chairs wish to thank all the members of the IASC Task Team for their active engagement and support since 2016. TheTask Team is composed of representatives from UN agencies, humanitarian and development organizations, governments and organizationsof persons with disabilities. The co-chairs also thank members of the IASC Reference Groups on Gender and Humanitarian Actionand on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), the Cash and Learning Partnership and the Global Protection Clusterfor their collaboration and active involvement.

The Task Team is grateful to the members of the core group for their consistent support and valuable inputs, namely FacundoChavez-Penillas (OHCHR), Isabelle De Muyser-Boucher (OCHA), Georgia Dominik (International Disability Alliance), Kirstin Lange(UNHCR), Ulrike Last (Humanity & Inclusion), Boram Lee (Women's Refugee Commission), Asma Maladwala (UNICEF), Anita Marini(MHPSS Reference Group) Gopal Mitra (UNICEF), Mina Mojtahedi (International Federation of the Red Cross/International Committeeof the Red Cross) and Ricardo Pla Cordero (International Rescue Committee).

We also thank the following individuals who made important contributions: Sien Andries, Astrid Arne, Orsolya Bartha, ElenaBertozzi, Mariangela Bizzari, Estelle Bloom, Sabrina Ebert, Greta Gamberini, Priscille Geiser, Vidar Glette, Jessica Justus,Janet Lord, Meghna Manaktala, Melissa Marshall, Juliette Myers, Tom Palmer, Stephen Perry, Emma Pearce, Marcie Roth, RobertoSaltori, Delphine Sokchearta, Haakon Spriewald and Janet Aderemi Toyin.

The Guidelines could not have been prepared without the extensive participatory consultations that organizations of personswith disabilities convened in association with the Task Team. We are particularly grateful to the African Disability Forum;the Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities; Inclusion International; the Latin American Network of Non-GovernmentalOrganizations of Persons with Disabilities and their Families (RIADIS); and the Pacific Disability Forum. We also thank theCentre for Disability in Development (Bangladesh), the European Disability Forum, Human Rights Watch and the Women's RefugeeCommission for their contributions to regional and thematic consultations. Dragana Jocic and Stacy Cokson of the IDA LogisticsTeam worked tirelessly to ensure the success of many of the consultations and workshops.

More widely, we thank the very many people who participated in the online survey and initial desk review, reviewed drafts,supported the preparations of the sector-specific chapters, and took part in the validation workshop, core-group review processes,and the many global, regional and thematic consultations and multi-stakeholder workshops that the Guidelines draw upon.

We are grateful to Christine Dinsmore, Robert Archer and Adam Woolf for editorial support, Slimane Sorour for design and PrashantVerma for accessibility.

The IASC Secretariat provided invaluable support and guidance: we thank particularly Isabelle de Muyser- Boucher, Nuhad Al-Alfi,Tanja Schuemer-Cross and Mervat Shelbaya. Additionally, the Task Team appreciated the cooperation and support of the co-chairsof the IASC Results Group on Accountability and Inclusion, Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth (UNHCR) and Meritxell Relaño (UNICEF).

The IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action could not have been prepared or completed without the financial assistance granted by the Australian Department of ForeignAffairs and Trade, the Australian Permanent Mission's International Development Fund, the European Civil Protection and HumanitarianAid Operations (ECHO), the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Federal Foreign Office and the Luxembourg Ministryof Foreign Affairs.

Finally, we acknowledge the Inter-Agency Standing Committee itself. Its decision to establish a Task Team with a tri-partiteco-chairing arrangement has ensured that persons with disabilities and their representative organizations gave leadershipand fully participated in this initiative from the outset.