Recommendation #1: Improve data collection & registration for children with disabilities in humanitarian settings

Recommendation #2: Incorporate an inclusive & multi-faceted MHPSS approach to support a continuum of wellbeing

Recommendation #3: Actively encourage the contribution of children with disabilities towards disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction & child protection mechanisms

Recommendation #4: Improve coordination and planning to improve access to basic needs & safety

Recommendation #5: Strengthen education in emergency settings for children with disabilities to better cope and respond to crises

Create more inclusive eligibility criteria for social protection initiatives

Integrate more holistic packages of support for people with disabilities

Facilitate meaningful participation of people with disabilities in research, policy and practice

Strengthen policy frameworks and accountability for social protection initiatives

Remove barriers to accessibility for people with disabilities

A multi-sectoral approach is needed to address mental health issues

Service provision needs to be sustainable and feasible

Interventions must be adapted to meet the constantly changing demands of a novel health crisis

Need for rigorous research on appropriate and effective service provision

Strong communication campaigns are essential to support wellbeing and reduce disinformation

Supporting family members caring for a person with a disability needs to be foregrounded in policy, planning and programming

Utilising and delivering evidence-based psycho-social interventions to support home-based carers

Attention needs to be given to wider ecological interventions

Enhanced access to training represents a potentially effective method of increasing carers’ confidence

All family caregivers will not benefit from the same types of interventions

Cultural adaptability is essential in school-based settings

Take a multi-modal approach for integrated support

Active participation of young people in programmes

Ensuring sustainability and feasibility in low-resource settings

Building the capacity and readiness of schooling systems

Learn from prior research on barriers faced by people with disabilities in humanitarian camps, to inform an inclusive COVID-19 response

Ensure the continuity of basic and specialised services for people with disabilities in camps.

Women and children with disabilities need specific consideration during the COVID-19 response in camps.

Mainstream recommendations for the containment of COVID-19 in camps need to be adapted to be disability inclusive.

A targeted approach “targeted shielding”, could ensure that people with disabilities are specifically catered for in containment measures.

Encourage participation by building in improved systems for disability access

Seek engagement with a wider and more representative range of people with disabilities

Strengthen mechanisms to better evaluate disability-inclusion in programme design

Develop and make accessible opportunities for people with disabilities to gain leadership, research and programmatic skills

Create, adopt and maintain a collaborative ethos for programming that genuinely adopts the principle of equal partnership

Inclusive education settings need universal interventions.

Schools for children with disabilities can include targeted prevention interventions to reduce perpetration and victimisation.

Educators need capacity development in order to help prevent and respond to bullying.

Interventions need to be multicomponent and address the systemic roots of victimisation.

National legal and policy frameworks should reflect the rights of persons with disabilities and be aligned with the CRPD principles

Adopt a multi-sectoral approach to formulate and implement policies and programmes for inclusive employment

Develop clear guidelines to mandate the implementation of policies that promote inclusive employment

Ensure adequate financial resources are available to support inclusive employment

Use established tools and strategies to monitor and evaluate the policy implementation

Invest in future research to inform evidence-based disability related policies

Recomendación #1: Los diseñadores del programa deben realizar una revisión rápida de los desafíos relacionados con WASH (agua, saneamiento e higiene) que experimentan las personas con discapacidades y sus cuidadores durante el COVID-19.

Recomendación #2: La inclusión de la discapacidad debe ser una consideración clave al diseñar programas de respuesta al COVID-19, y las medidas de inclusión deben contar con todos los recursos necesarios.

Recomendación #3: Las personas con todo tipo de discapacidades deben participar en todas las etapas de programación sobre COVID-19, desde la planificación hasta la evaluación.

Recomendación #4: Se debe brindar asistencia a las personas con discapacidad y cuidadores para que puedan llevar a cabo las medidas preventivas y de protección del COVID-19.

Recomendación #5: Todas las instalaciones y servicios de WASH, y ejecución del programa COVID-19 deben diseñarse teniendo en cuenta la accesibilidad y la inclusión.

Recomendación #6: Es necesario aplicar una perspectiva de género a las respuestas WASH COVID-19 para que sean inclusivas

Recomendación #7: Capacitar a los profesionales de WASH y trabajadores de la salud en WASH que incluya a las personas con discapacidad.

Recomendación #8: Aprender de otras epidemias y documentar las experiencias para informar a los programas y políticas para que incluyan la discapacidad.