HI commit to the development, validation, piloting and roll-out of global Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, currently under development by the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
As co-chair of the IASC Task Team on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action together with the International Disability Alliance and UNICEF, HI will support the finalisation of draft guidelines by end of 2018, and to drive the endorsement, piloting and roll out process in 2019.
HI will continue the implementation of advocacy and awareness raising programmes, in line with UN CRPD and by leveraging the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, to enhance the understanding of the needs of persons with disabilities to all humanitarian actors willing to strengthen their response towards persons with disabilities at global, regional and national level.
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With IDA and CBM, HI supports advocacy and awareness raising activities in three countries affected or prone to crisis in 2018. With partners and likeminded organisations, HI works towards ensuring disability inclusion in humanitarian action features in relevant international fora, including ECOSOC Humanitarian Action Segment and CRPD Conference of State Parties, and that accounting and monitoring mechanisms to the CRPD and the Agenda for Humanity consider the rights of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action.
Persons with disabilities are entitled to equal and full participation in all spheres of life and have the right to be safe and protected from harm in times of humanitarian crisis, as per the CRPD and the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. Therefore, HI commits to enhance efforts of mainstreaming disability in its organization; ensure participation of persons with disabilities in its humanitarian action; and support capacity building for humanitarian actors and DPOs.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
HI has developed tools with field teams and partners on inclusive humanitarian action since 2016. In 2018 a guidance note and tool box will be finalized. In partnership with IDA and CBM, HI supports the development of BRIDGE CRPD-SDGs pilot module on CRPD Article 11. In partnership with CBM and others, HI supports the capacity building of German humanitarian actors. On the field, HI works with DPOs and humanitarian actors to strengthen their disability inclusiveness.