Use updated WHO guidance to strengthen and better integrate rehabilitation services into health systems

Build the capacity of an indigenous rehabilitation workforce to better meet population rehabilitation needs

Identify context-relevant approaches to tackle key barriers to accessing rehabilitation among people with disabilities in LMICs

Collect, strengthen and share evidence on what works to improve access to rehabilitation for people with disabilities

Ministries of Education should be responsible for the education of all children and inclusive education reform

Raise community awareness of benefits for students without disabilities

Teachers in LMICs need to receive training in special needs education including the benefits inclusive education can bring to students without disabilities

More evidence is needed to understand what impact inclusive education can have on children without disabilities socially and academically in LMICs

Disaggregate evidence on what works in health system strengthening by disability status

Produce more rigorous evidence on what works in strengthening disability-focused services

Integrate relevant CBR activities, and Rehabilitation Services into general health policy and sector strengthening activities

Involve people with disabilities in participatory governance of health systems at all levels

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Use the Washington Group Enhanced Short Set (WGES), supplemented by other tools as relevant

Dedicate sufficient resources to translation and training

Follow guidance to analyse, disaggregate, interpret and present data

Where insufficient resources exist to embed the WGES, consider alternatives but invest in pilot testing first

Include assessment of impairments or health conditions depending on the research question and resource availability

Invest in further research to strengthen identification tools for people with disabilities

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