Disability inclusion in humanitarian action
- Issue 78 Inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action: what now?
- 1 Disability inclusion in humanitarian action
- 2 Pacific people with disability shaping the agenda for inclusive humanitarian action
- 3 ‘A participation revolution’: creating genuine dialogue and partnerships between humanitarian actors and the disability movement
- 4 Bridge CRPD-SDGs Global Training on Article 11
- 5 Ensuring disability counts in humanitarian programming: addressing the data gap
- 6 A review of disability and older age inclusion training – what works, what doesn’t and what needs to be done
- 7 What does the evidence say? A literature review of the evidence on including people with disabilities and older people in humanitarian response
- 8 ‘He who lives in the attic knows where the roof leaks’: lessons from a disability audit in north-east Nigeria
- 9 Strategic partnerships and disability-inclusive humanitarian action: the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh
- 10 Lessons from Islamic Relief Worldwide’s integrated approach to mainstreaming protection and inclusion
- 11 Walking the talk: a participatory review of the IRC’s feedback mechanisms
- 12 SADI – CAFOD’s safe, accessible, dignified and inclusive approach
The theme of this edition of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited with Sherin Alsheikh Ahmed from Islamic Relief Worldwide, is disability inclusion in humanitarian action. Persons with disabilities are not only disproportionately impacted by conflicts, disasters and other emergencies, but also face barriers to accessing humanitarian assistance. At the same time, global commitments and standards and the IASC Guidelines on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action all emphasise how persons with disabilities are also active agents of change. Disability and age-focused organisations have led on testing and demonstrating how inclusion can be done better. Yet despite this progress, challenges to effective inclusion remain.
As Kirstin Lange notes in the lead article, chief among these challenges is humanitarian agencies’ lack of engagement with organisations of persons with disabilities. Simione Bula, Elizabeth Morgan and Teresa Thomson look at disability inclusion in humanitarian response in the Pacific, and Kathy Al Jubeh and Alradi Abdalla argue for a ‘participation revolution’, building on learning from the gender movement. Tchaurea Fleury and Sulayman AbdulMumuni Ujah outline how the Bridge Article 11 training initiative is encouraging constructive exchange between humanitarian and disability actors. The lack of good, disaggregated data is highlighted by Sarah Collinson; Frances Hill, Jim Cranshaw and Carys Hughes emphasise the need for training resources in local languages and accessible formats; and Sophie Van Eetvelt and colleagues report on a review of the evidence on inclusion of people with disabilities and older people.
Kirsty Smith analyses the findings of a review of a DFID programme in north-east Nigeria, while Carolin Funke highlights the importance of strategic partnerships between disability-focused organisations, drawing on her research in Cox’s Bazar. Sherin Alsheikh Ahmed describes Islamic Relief Worldwide’s approach to mainstreaming protection and inclusion, while Pauline Thivillier and Valentina Shafina outline IRC’s Client Responsive Programming. The edition ends with reflections by Mirela Turcanu and Yves Ngunzi Kahashi on CAFOD’s SADI approach.
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