A/HRC/31/30 identifies the domicile of persons with disabilities to prioritize their transportation in the event of an emergency. Collecting information through comprehensive needs assessments that disaggregate data by age, sex and impairment can facilitate risk management, planning and the implementation of risk reduction strategies. 42 Furthermore, humanitarian actors, Governments and civil society organizations would greatly benefit from sharing data and information to better protect the rights of persons with disabilities. Several States, including Chile, Egypt, Fiji, Indonesia and Lebanon, have undertaken to reform their census and national or local surveys to collect disaggregated data on persons with disabilities. 27. More applied qualitative research should be generated to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the issues related to persons with disabilities in humanitarian emergencies. Such research should favour the use of participatory methodologies in order to better depict the requirements, experiences and priorities of persons with disabilities and to promote the development of inclusive policies and practices. In this regard, some efforts have been made by States parties jointly with academia and international organizations. Australia, through the University of Sydney, has supported initiatives to strengthen collaboration between UNCHR, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Special Fund for the Disabled and the Women’s Refugee Commission to address the rights of persons with disabilities in humanitarian emergencies. 43 Similarly, Finland supports a collaborative project between UNCHR and the Women’s Refugee Commission that involves consultation with displaced persons with disabilities to identify and address protection concerns. 44 B. Reducing the exclusion of persons with disabilities and managing risk 28. Information must be provided in accessible formats before, during and after a risk situation (see para. 7 above). This is crucial to ensure the safety of persons with disabilities, especially of those with hearing, visual and intellectual impairments. Furthermore, information should be provided in the relevant languages, including those used by asylum seekers. In Spain, publicly-funded researchers have developed the means to ensure the accessibility of emergency notification systems.45 Chile too funds projects aimed at making emergency-related information accessible. 29. Evacuation systems must be improved. Persons with disabilities are more likely to be overlooked by evacuation strategies in emergencies. A recent United Nations survey of more than 5,000 people with disabilities from 126 countries found that only 20 per cent could evacuate immediately and without difficulty in the event of a sudden hazard, while the remainder reported that they could evacuate with some degree of difficulty. 46 Evacuation strategies should give specific attention to the requirements of persons with 42 43 44 45 46 10 also National Fire Protection Association, Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities, June 2007, p. 8. See WHO, Guidance Note on Disability and Emergency Risk Management for Health, 2013, pp. 20– 25; Women’s Refugee Commission, Disability Inclusion (see footnote 34), pp. 17, 18 and 29; and UNICEF, Children and Young People with Disabilities, Fact Sheet, May 2013, p. 10. The Government of Australia has also funded a collaborative project between the University of Sydney and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund that includes consultation with persons with disabilities. See http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/cdrp/projects/pipddmi.shtml. See Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, UNHCR/Strengthening protection of persons with disabilities in forced displacement, 19 September 2014. A. Malizia et al, “SEMA4A: An ontology for emergency notification systems accessibility”, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 37, No. 4 (April 2010), pp. 3380–3391. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, “UN global survey explains why so many people living with disabilities die in disasters”, press release, 10 October 2013.