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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.
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