Paper details
| Paper authors | Carolin Funke |
| In panel on | Inclusion of Disadvantaged Groups in Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Abstract
The IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action are a relative novel international document to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities as a crosscutting issue in all humanitarian response structures. They support a rights-based approach to inclusion and define four 'must do' actions: 1) meaningful participation, 2) removal of barriers, 3) empowerment, and 4) collection and analysis of disaggregated data. They reflect the input of more than 600 stakeholders and have meanwhile been translated into Arabic, Spanish and French and their respective braille and easy-to-read versions. The question remains to which extent they have gained a foothold in humanitarian practice. This paper examines how humanitarian organizations implement the four ‘must do’ actions of the IASC Guidelines in South Sudan, and identifies challenges and good practices in this process. It relies on expert interviews with representatives of humanitarian organizations and organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) as well as focus group discussions and document research.
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