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    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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    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.

    Resources

    Featured Document
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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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    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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    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

    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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    I See That It Is Possible

    Building Capacity for Disability Inclusion in Gender-based Violence (GBV) Programming in Humanitarian Settings

    An examination of the barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from accessing gender-based violence programs, and practices to increase their access.
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    Stories of Change

    Building Capacity for Disability Inclusion in Gender-based Violence (GBV) Programming

    A collection of first-person accounts from persons with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers.
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    Including Adolescent Girls with Disabilities in Humanitarian Programs

    Principles and Guidelines

    Adolescent girls with disabilities and girls who live in households with persons with disabilities are often overlooked in humanitarian programming. The following principles show how to foster their participation and to strengthen protective assets. This mitigates their risk of violence, abuse and exploitation.
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    "It doesn’t matter if you are disabled. You are talented"

    The intersection of sexual and reproductive health and disability for Bhutanese refugees in Damak, Nepal

    A qualitative assessment of the specific risks, needs and barriers for Bhutanese refugees with disabilities to accessing SRH services in Beldangi refugee camp, Damak, Nepal. Their capacities and practical ways to overcome these challenges were also examined.

    "It doesn’t matter if you are disabled. You are talented" | Accessible Version

    The intersection of sexual and reproductive health and disability for Bhutanese refugees in Damak, Nepal

    A qualitative assessment of the specific risks, needs and barriers for Bhutanese refugees with disabilities to accessing SRH services in Beldangi refugee camp, Damak, Nepal. Their capacities and practical ways to overcome these challenges were also examined.

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