Eligibility criteria should be reviewed to avoid the widespread exclusion of people with disabilities in need of support during COVID-19.

Application procedures and facilities for social protection and relief interventions must be accessible to people with all types of disabilities.

Mechanisms for delivering social protection and other must be accessible and support the agency of people with disabilities

The content of COVID-19 economic responses must be relevant to people with disabilities and adequate to meet their needs.

Social protection should be coordinated with other sectors and actors to develop complementary interventions

More evidence is needed if we are to understand how, and for whom, inclusive education works in LMIC, particularly in relation to academic achievement.

More evidence is needed regarding educational outcomes of children with disabilities in response to various interventions, as these are seldom measured in LMIC.

Integrating best practices from rehabilitation and special education needs to be facilitated in low-resource settings.

We need to involve parents in educational interventions.

Train generalist healthcare workers to provide healthcare to people with disabilities.

Train nurses or community health workers to provide specialist knowledge concerning disability within general healthcare settings.

Deliver preventative health checks for people with disabilities

Deliver anti-stigma interventions for mainstream healthcare workers.

Reasonable accommodations need to be made to make healthcare accessible to people with disabilities.

Coordinated care and multi-sectoral coordination of care for people with disabilities seems to have positive effects, but models which work in LMIC need to be explored

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

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.

Recomendación #1: Un enfoque multisectorial es necesario para afrontar los problemas de salud mental

Recomendación #2: La provisión de servicio debe ser sostenible y realizable.

Recomendación #3: Las intervenciones deben de ajustarse a la situación actual basándose en la evidencia existente y evaluando enfoques innovadores.

Recomendación #4: Más investigación es requerida para identificar cuál la provisión de servicios más adecuada y eficaz.

Recomendación #5: Fortalecer las estrategias de comunicación y la entrega de información para apoyar el bienestar de todos.

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.

Programme designers should conduct a rapid review of WASH-related challenges

Disability-inclusion is a key consideration when designing COVID-19 WASH programmes

People with all types of disabilities must be engaged at all stages of COVID-19 programming

Assistance needs to be provided to people with disabilities and carers

All WASH facilities and services need to be designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind

Apply a gender lens to disability inclusive WASH COVID-19 responses

Train WASH practitioners and healthcare workers on disability inclusive WASH

Learn from and document experiences to inform disability inclusive programming and policies

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

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.