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Women with Disabilities

Women with Disabilities. Disabilities Among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations. Six month research project Goals: Raise awareness Change practice Studied five country operations Interviewed practitioners, donors, policy makers, experts, and refugees with

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Women with Disabilities

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  1. Women with Disabilities

  2. Disabilities Among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations • Six month research project • Goals: Raise awareness Change practice • Studied five country operations • Interviewed practitioners, donors, policy makers, experts, and refugees with disabilities • Looked at all sectors of service provision • Covered camp-based and urban populations

  3. Sectors Assessed • Identification and registration • camp layout and infrastructure • food and nutrition • health services • psychosocial services • inclusive education • vocational training, employment and livelihoods • participation and community inclusion • protection

  4. Women’s work in refugee and IDP contexts

  5. Collecting firewood

  6. Child care

  7. cooking

  8. Income generation

  9. Food distributions

  10. What if that woman has a disability?

  11. Consider the risks women fleeing conflict face

  12. Findings • Less able to flee, more often left behind during return • Refugees with disabilities often forgotten and invisible – even more so for women • Those with disabilities more limited by our actions than by their physical and mental abilities • Potential to contribute and participate seldom recognized

  13. Traditional community coping mechanisms, including extended families, neighbors and other caregivers, often break down during displacement • Protection risks: discrimination, harassment, stigmatization, neglect and exclusion • Risks of sexual violence and abuse

  14. Consider not only women with disabilities but mothers/care-givers of children with disabilities

  15. GAPS • No organization serving as convener • Near complete lack of awareness among mainstream service providers • Lack of engagement of local DPOs

  16. Solutions – Application of the Convention • The principles enshrined in the UN Convention should underpin all refugee and IDP assistance programs • Article 11 calls on States Parties to take “all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters.”

  17. Solutions • Conflicts and emergencies can be catalysts for positive social, attitudinal and environmental change • Centralized data collection system – disaggregated by age, gender, type of disability • Disability awareness for all service providers • Establish self-help and support networks • Provide equal access and opportunity for all mainstream services • The provision of needed targeted services

  18. Resource Kit For fieldworkers Practical checklists and tools on how to improve services and protection for displaced persons with disabilities

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