Box 1

Under these partnerships, HI, CBM or CDD receive funds to provide targeted assistance to persons with disabilities in the camps and/or host communities, while simultaneously strengthening the capacities of the donor agency (a UN organisation) and its implementing partners. Most of these partnerships evolve from financial relationships, by which the disability-focused NGO acts as a service provider. With the establishment of the UN Disability Strategy in 2019, however, UN agencies are increasingly moving away from merely financial relationships and reaching out to disability-focused organisations in order to strengthen their own capacities and that of their mainstream partners on disability inclusion. This means that staff from different departments and sectors of the response participate in large-scale training and coaching sessions. One UN agency is particularly active in reaching out to disability-focused NGOs and has become more disability inclusive. Several departments and implementing partners have benefitted from training and coaching. Subsequently, one department redrafted its community feedback mechanism to make it more accessible for persons with disabilities. Several departments have established inclusive action plans, which will form the basis for a mission-wide, multi-sector action plan, starting in late 2020.