Commit resources to support strengthened disability data
HI commits to continue its work on strengthening collection of data on persons with disabilities by implementing projects that support stakeholders (such as National Statistical Offices, Organisations of Persons with Disabilities and Mainstream Humanitarian Actors) to collect, analyse data on persons with disabilities and use it to make projects more inclusive as well as developing learning materials and delivering training.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
As part of the HIEP project (which is one of many projects HI are doing), HI is creating learning materials on the use of the Washington Group questions in humanitarian action – based of the finding of the action-research carried out in Jordan, DRC and the Philippines in 2017. The learning materials will be published in English in September and Arabic and French in December 2018. Roll out of the questions to humanitarian actors through training sessions in various locations by HI will take place between January and March 2019.
Commit to use the Washington Group questions
HI commits to disaggregate data by disability using the Washington Group Questions (short set and child functioning modules) in relevant projects and promote and support its operational partners to collect disaggregated data by disability and make its programmes more inclusive of persons with disabilities.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
HI is committed to use the Washington Group Questions in its project and will focus in 2019 to build the capacity of its staff – using the learning developed as part our disability data in emergencies. In 2019 data collection on persons with disabilities will be piloted in some countries to develop/finalise methodology and tools; before moving on to collecting disability data in all relevant projects in 2020.
Commit resources to support strengthened disability data
HI (with OCHA/the Humanitarian Data Centre) commits to make available existing data on persons with disabilities by creating an open source page dedicated to disability data where data can be accessed, visualised and shared by humanitarian actors.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
From September 2019, HI will collaborate with the humanitarian data centre (OCHA led initiative) to (1) tackle the issue of data literacy in HI’s e-learning on the use of the Washington Group questions in humanitarian actors. This will be published between September and December 2018 on open source learning platforms (2) promote data sharing by creating a disability data page on HDX and publishing existing data on persons with disabilities. HI and the humanitarian data centre will launch the e-learning and disability data page together during a joint event at the end of 2018/early 2019.