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Disability Inclusion in Drought and Food Crisis Emergency Response

CBM Emergency Response UnitJuly 2011

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PURPOSE

• PURPOSE

Awareness raising, Training, Project design, Advocacy, Proposals.

• BACKGROUND• Vulnerability of persons

with disability• Persons with disabiliities

-20% of world’s poorest • Principles of

Humanitarian Charter (1)

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Importance of including persons with Disability

• Effective good quality humanitarian practice.

• ‘Sphere standards’ (1): factors that contribute to vulnerability in disasters

• Poverty• Discrimination • Social isolation

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• Difficulties in accessing emergency response services.• During food crisis: specific needs of persons with

disabilities • Dietary• Health & Hygiene• Transport• Higher risk for some diseases

• Children with disability• Abuse and Exploitation• Neglected (2) (3)

• Miss out on school nutrition programs• Supplementary feeding

Importance of including persons with Disability

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How should persons with disability be included

• Persons with disability have a right to inclusion.(4)

• ‘Twin track’ approach to emergency relief operations

• ‘Mainstream’• ‘Specialist’ action

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• Handicap International have prepared a comprehensive ‘Disability Checklist for Emergency Response’ which can be accessed at http://www.handicap-international.de/fileadmin/redaktion/pdf/disability_checklist_booklet_01.pdf

• Contacts (Please note: you are welcome to change this contact information based on your location.)

• 1) CBM Australia, including the CBM-Nossal Partnership is available to provide technical input and capacity development in disability inclusion for emergency response and development programmes. Please contact: Dr Kirsty Thompson, Director Inclusive Development, ( kthompson@cbm.org.au ) or David Lewis, Director Strategic Programmes ( dlewis@cbm.org.au ).

• 2) Plan International is currently developing a disability inclusive drought response in southern Ethiopia. For more information about this program, please contact: Rohan Kent, Senior Program Manager, Disaster Risk Management ( rohan.kent@plan.org.au ).

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