A/HRC/31/30 effective way to avoid the exclusion of persons with disabilities. States and humanitarian actors should ensure active participation of and coordination and meaningful consultation with persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, including of women, men, boys and girls with disabilities of all ages and at all levels. 58. Resource allocation is a key factor in ensuring adequate responses for persons with disabilities and in building resilience in the face of future emergencies. States should mobilize adequate, timely and predictable resources to operationalize their commitment to emergency preparedness and response that are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities, following a human rights-based approach to programming. 59. Evidence has shown that there is often a lack of capacity in field operations supporting persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergency. States, non-State actors and humanitarian actors should build capacity of stakeholders, both military and civilian, peacekeeping personnel, and other field workers intervening in emergency situations regarding the rights of persons with disabilities. 60. Reconstruction and rebuilding offer a unique opportunity to “build back better”. When adopting a human rights-based approach, States and humanitarian actors should ensure accessibility through universal design in programming, and in all post-emergency reconstruction and rebuilding, particularly during planning and reconstruction of infrastructure and public facilities. International cooperation should be implemented in accordance with the standards established in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Universal design and accessibility and nondiscrimination should be integral outcome indicators, design parameters and resource allocation criteria for quality reconstruction and rebuilding. 61. Prevention of primary impairments should be part of health strategies or other mainstream strategies for the prevention of risks, without any negative impact on the allocation of resources to disability-related strategies. Humanitarian actors should avoid including in their disability-related strategies issues concerning the prevention of primary impairments. 62. Current Security Council frameworks collect information on civilians, children and women in conflict. Mainstreaming persons with disabilities into these efforts and mechanisms would facilitate data collection on their situation. States should promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in existing United Nations frameworks that address conflict and emergency situations, and provide high-level support and develop internationally agreed standards and guidelines on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. 17

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