Reports on Disability

Reports on Disabilities

Disabilities

Resources for addressing the needs and maximizing the potential of refugees and displaced persons who have disabilities. This includes the first major report on the subject, as well as field tools and practical guidance for field staff.

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Toward Gender Equality and Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action

At least 70 million people are currently displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, or violence. As many as 14 million of them are persons with disabilities. Globally, one in five women has a disability. During the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action was endorsed by more than 200 humanitarian and human rights networks and organizations, networks and/or organizations of persons with disabilities, UN agencies, and governments. The Charter includes a recommendation to develop “guidelines supporting humanitarian actors to improve inclusion of persons with disabilities in emergency preparedness and responses.” The IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action (the Guidelines) were finalized after three years of extensive consultations with multiple stakeholders and recently endorsed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. The participation and empowerment of women and girls with disabilities and their representative organizations is critical to ensuring that disability inclusion is realized in humanitarian action. The Women’s Refugee Commission worked with a number of humanitarian stakeholders, including organizations of women with disabilities, to integrate gender and GBV considerations throughout the Guidelines. This issue brief provides an overview of the Guidelines and more detailed information on the chapter on GBV. In line with IASC guidance, disability inclusion should be reflected in all global GBV guidance and standards.
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Age, Gender, and Diversity Tip Sheet for Global Refugee Forum Pledges

Helping Ensure Age, Gender, and Diversity Inclusive Pledges and Good Practices for the Global Refugee Forum


Ahead of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) taking place in Geneva from 17 to 18 December 2018, WRC, together with CARE International, Plan International, and the UNSW Forced Migration Research Network, has developed a "tip sheet" to help stakeholders ensure their pledges, contributions, and good practices for the first GRF are more effective and put “people first” by incorporating age, gender, and diversity, including disability (AGD), considerations.

The guidance has been endorsed by more than 20 organizations including:
ACT Alliance, Act for Peace, AMES Australia, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW), CARE International, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), INTERSOS, International Rescue Committee (IRC), Jesuit Refugee Service Australia, Justice Centre Hong Kong, Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network Australia (MYAN), National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU), PHALS from Bangladesh, PLAN International, Settlement Services International (SSI), Townsville Multicultural Support Group Inc. (TMSG), UNSW Forced Migration Research Network, Women Deliver, Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC), Women Refugee Route

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Leaving No One Behind: Ensuring gender equality and the protection and empowerment of women and girls with disabilities in humanitarian action

Our project contributing to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team developing Global Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action (IASC Disability Guidelines), supports humanitarian stakeholders to work towards gender equality and to address the protection and empowerment of women and girls with disabilities by:

  • ensuring gender is mainstreamed across the IASC Guidelines in consultation with humanitarian stakeholders;
  • drafting and piloting sector-specific guidance for gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response actors on disability inclusion;
  • developing and delivering training packages to support the rollout and implementation of the IASC Guidelines.
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Disability Inclusion in Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence Programs

The following guidance notes and tools are a result of a partnership project between the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and UNICEF Lebanon entitled "Strengthening Child Protection and Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response for Women, Children, and Youth with Disabilities." The overall goal of the project is to improve violence prevention and response programming for at-risk groups of women, girls, and boys with disabilities. It builds on existing initiatives of gender-based violence (GBV) and child protection (CP) actors to systematically advance disability inclusion across the CP and GBV prevention and response sectors in Lebanon.
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Disability Program Fact Sheet

The Women's Refugee Commission (WRC)'s Disability Program seeks to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children, and youth with disabilities who are displaced by crisis and conflict. We research their needs, identify solutions, and advocate for changes to policies and programs that strengthen their resilience and drive positive change in humanitarian practice.
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Piloting the IASC Disability Guidelines – GBV

Project Brief

WRC, as a member of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team responsible for developing Global Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action (IASC Disability Guidelines), has assumed a technical lead role in gender mainstreaming across the Guidelines and in consultation with humanitarian stakeholders, drafting and piloting sector-specific guidance for GBV prevention and response programs.
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Disability Inclusion in Psychosocial Support Programs in Lebanon: Guidance for Psychosocial Support Facilitators

Disability Inclusion in Psychosocial Support Programs in Lebanon: Guidance for Psychosocial Support Facilitators is designed to support PSS facilitators to strengthen inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities in a range of PSS activities, including community-based and focused activities. It includes guidance, key actions and tools to improve outreach and identification of children with disabilities for PSS activities; to adapt existing PSS activities; and to support children and adolescents with disabilities who are at medium to high risk of child protection concerns.

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Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Outreach, Safe Identification, and Referral of Women, Children and Youth with Disabilities thumbnail

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Outreach, Safe Identification, and Referral of Women, Children and Youth with Disabilities

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Outreach, Safe Identification and Referral of Women, Children, and Youth with Disabilities is designed to support frontline workers, community volunteers, and mobilizers and their supervisors who are working in GBV prevention and response to foster inclusion of persons with disabilities in their community activities. It includes guidance, key actions and tools to improve accessibility of existing community processes and activities relating to GBV.

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Outreach, Safe Identification and Referral of Women, Children, and Youth with Disabilities

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Outreach, Safe Identification and Referral of Women, Children, and Youth with Disabilities is designed to support frontline workers, community volunteers, and mobilizers and their supervisors who are working in GBV prevention and response to foster inclusion of persons with disabilities in their community activities. It includes guidance, key actions and tools to improve accessibility of existing community processes and activities relating to GBV.
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Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Case Management of Survivors & At-risk Women, Children and Youth with Disabilities

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Case Management for Survivors and At-risk Women, Children and Youth with Disabilities is designed to support GBV case workers and supervisors to strengthen case management services and to uphold GBV guiding principles while working with these individuals.

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Beirut I: Strengthening Peer Networks for Refugees with Disabilities

Interventions for Strengthening GBV Prevention and Response for Urban Refugees

Previous research has demonstrated that refugees with intellectual disabilities living in urban areas face added risks of violence, including GBV, due to the breakdown in protective peer networks, and exclusion activities which might confer access to age- and gender-appropriate information and education. Throughout 2015 and 2016, the WRC partnered with a local organization called the Lebanese Association for Self-Advocacy (LASA) to strengthen protective peer networks for refugees with disabilities living in Beirut. Sessions supported refugees with disabilities living in Beirut to reflect on safety issues, including how these might be different for women, men, girls and boys with disabilities, as well as how these might relate to nationality/country of origin. These sessions also helped to strengthen their protective peer networks in the community. For more information, please see the video entitled Meaningful Programs for Engaging Refugees with Disabilities in Lebanon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYGNk1RuZ-o
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Vulnerability- and resilience-based approaches in response to the Syrian crisis

Implications for women, children, and youth with disabilities

Recognizing the increased attention to resilience in the Syria response, the WRC undertook a project to examine how vulnerability and resilience-based approaches are supporting the protection and empowerment of Syrian refugee women, children, and youth with disabilities.

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