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Disability Inclusion in Drought and Food Crisis Emergency Response CBM Emergency Response Unit July 2011. PURPOSE. PURPOSE Awareness raising, Training, Project design, Advocacy, Proposals. BACKGROUND Vulnerability of persons with disability

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  1. Disability Inclusion in Drought and Food Crisis Emergency ResponseCBM Emergency Response UnitJuly 2011

  2. PURPOSE • PURPOSE Awareness raising, Training, Project design, Advocacy, Proposals. • BACKGROUND • Vulnerability of persons with disability • Persons with disabiliities -20% of world’s poorest • Principles of Humanitarian Charter (1)

  3. Importance of including persons with Disability • Effective good quality humanitarian practice. • ‘Sphere standards’ (1): factors that contribute to vulnerability in disasters • Poverty • Discrimination • Social isolation

  4. Importance of including persons with Disability • Difficulties in accessing emergency response services. • During food crisis: specific needs of persons with disabilities • Dietary • Health & Hygiene • Transport • Higher risk for some diseases • Children with disability • Abuse and Exploitation • Neglected (2) (3) • Miss out on school nutrition programs • Supplementary feeding

  5. How should persons with disability be included • Persons with disability have a right to inclusion.(4) • ‘Twin track’ approach to emergency relief operations • ‘Mainstream’ • ‘Specialist’ action

  6. FURTHER INFORMATION • Handicap International have prepared a comprehensive ‘Disability Checklist for Emergency Response’ which can be accessed at http://www.handicap-international.de/fileadmin/redaktion/pdf/disability_checklist_booklet_01.pdf • Contacts (Please note: you are welcome to change this contact information based on your location.) • 1) CBM Australia, including the CBM-Nossal Partnership is available to provide technical input and capacity development in disability inclusion for emergency response and development programmes. Please contact: Dr Kirsty Thompson, Director Inclusive Development, ( kthompson@cbm.org.au ) or David Lewis, Director Strategic Programmes ( dlewis@cbm.org.au ). • 2) Plan International is currently developing a disability inclusive drought response in southern Ethiopia. For more information about this program, please contact: Rohan Kent, Senior Program Manager, Disaster Risk Management ( rohan.kent@plan.org.au ).

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