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What are the key considerations for including people with disabilities in COVID-19 hygiene promotion programmes?

COVID-19
Health
Equity Depth Local Relevance Feasibility
Recommendations
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

What works to improve educational outcomes of children with disabilities in school?

Education
Recommendations
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.

How do we ensure that children with disabilities are not bullied in school?

Stigma
Education
Recommendations
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.

How do we improve access to healthcare for people with disabilities?

Health
Recommendations
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

What interventions are effective to support home-based carers?

Health
Recommendations
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

How do we ensure that social protection assistance initiatives work for people with disabilities?

Livelihood & Social Protection
Equity Depth Local Relevance Feasibility
Recommendations
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