A/HRC/44/30 51. Among the provisions in the 2017–2019 action plan for implementing the National Strategy for Human Rights Protection in Armenia is a review of the law on the protection of the population in emergency situations, aimed at providing adequate humanitarian assistance to persons with disabilities in emergency situations. The research on risks and vulnerabilities which forms the basis of the Latvian National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change until 2030 found that climate change was most likely to affect socially vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities. 52. The Verona Charter on the rescue of persons with disabilities in the event of disasters is central to the Italian national strategy for the rescue of persons with disabilities in disasters and emergencies. It highlights the need for a multidimensional approach that takes due account of the various types of disability and degrees of vulnerability. 53. Other contributions received focused on policies, programmes and activities carried out with respect to disability-inclusive climate action. The Swedish public health authority has compiled a work programme for climate adaptation that identifies relevant action areas for working with health and climate change. Persons with disabilities are included as a group particularly at risk of health problems or death in relation to increasing temperatures. In El Salvador, the Intersectorial Technical Health Commission has made efforts to identify the specific requirements of persons with disabilities as part of its preparations for environmental threats and disasters. In order to establish institutional structures to advance the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation, gender, disability and climate change are identified as cross-cutting issues in the national medium-term Development Plan Framework of Ghana and are to be mainstreamed into medium-term development plans at the district level.59 54. Finland is taking measures to ensure the accessibility of web pages with information on climate change. The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communication has prepared a video in sign language and text on the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The website Verneri.net, run by the Finnish non-governmental organization Kehitysvammaliitto, includes a section on climate change in plain language. 55. United Nations agencies, international organizations and civil society organizations also play a critical role in promoting rights-based, disability-inclusive climate action. The United Nations Development Programme is scoping a project to build the resilience of persons with disabilities jointly with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu in preparation for a larger project under the Adaptation Fund in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand. In El Salvador, the Technical Sector Commission of Hostels, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and organizations of persons with disabilities, has proposed an action plan that aims to ensure the inclusion and protection of persons with disabilities during disasters. 56. The Gaibandha model in Bangladesh aims to build disability-inclusive resilience in response to flooding, with interventions at the household, community and municipal level by the international development organization CBM, in collaboration with the local nongovernmental organization Gaya Unnayan Kendra.60 The model encompasses both targeted employment support for persons with disabilities and inclusive governance mechanisms, to ensure that persons with disabilities are not bearing the brunt of climate change. CARE India installed raised hand pumps that are accessible to persons with disabilities to ensure that they would continue to be operational during flooding. 61 In Puerto Rico, the Eli 59 60 61 14 See Salley Alhassan and Wade L. Hadwen, “Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming climate change adaptation into WaSH development planning in Ghana”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 14, No. 7 (July 2017). See contribution from ILO. See Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte L. Sterrett and Amy Hilleboe, Toward Resilience: a Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (Rugby, Warwickshire, Practical Action Publishing Ltd., 2013).