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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.
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