A/HRC/44/41 environmental and communications barriers, and by providing reasonable accommodation when required; (c) They invest in awareness-raising and capacity-building, allocate core funding and develop lasting partnerships with organizations of persons with disabilities to empower persons with disabilities and their representative organizations to become active contributors to the response to humanitarian needs and solutions for displacement. 90. From planning stages through to monitoring and evaluation, States and other relevant humanitarian and development actors should work in close collaboration with persons with disabilities and their organizations, and should identify and allocate sufficient financial resources to dedicate to inclusive preparedness and response efforts in support of displaced persons with disabilities. 91. Donors funding national and international support for internally displaced persons should make disability inclusion a requirement in project proposals. Funding for addressing humanitarian crises and displacement situations should benefit persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others. Donors should also dedicate specific funding opportunities for projects aimed at realizing the inclusion and participation of internally displaced persons with disabilities and building the capacity of organizations of persons with disabilities to make their programmes inclusive of internally displaced persons with disabilities. Participation 92. Displaced persons with disabilities should be at the centre of any decision-making process relevant to them and their capacities and efforts as agents of change in their families and communities should be supported by all relevant stakeholders. 93. States and all relevant stakeholders should ensure persons with disabilities have equal opportunities to participate in and promote the participation of displaced persons with disabilities in policy and programme development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. 94. International and local organizations of persons with disabilities should be actively involved in the response to displacement and work in partnership with responders to increase mutual understanding of issues related to disability and displacement. Together, they can more effectively work to raise the awareness of operational actors and communities affected by displacement of the rights of persons with disabilities, and train operational actors on practical approaches to addressing access and participation barriers. 95. In both camp and out-of-camp settings, displaced persons with disabilities should be represented in community leadership structures and other community-based protection mechanisms, taking account of the range of disabilities, as well as gender, age and other aspects of diversity. Specific attention should be given to underrepresented and marginalized groups, such as persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, persons with deafblindness, women and girls and indigenous or minority groups. 96. Organizational good practices in the inclusive delivery of services should be more widely promoted, including establishing disability focal points; providing mobile assistance teams with specific expertise; training staff on eliminating stigma and stereotypes and on universal accessibility designs and the provision of reasonable accommodation; promoting peer support and the creation of networks of volunteers; and hiring persons with disabilities. 97. States and their humanitarian and development partners should prepare key messages in multiple accessible modes, means and formats, including sign language. Information about services, infrastructures and activities, and about procedures for feedback and complaint, should be effectively disseminated in accessible formats. 19

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