Factsheet - Middle East: Inclusive Humanitarian Action (IHA) - May 2021
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Unintentionally left behind
In humanitarian contexts, persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected and exposed to heightened risks, and remain amongst the most likely to be left out of humanitarian assistance, as they encounter multiple environmental, institutional, and attitudinal barriers. Pre-existing discrimination is compounded by barriers related to the humanitarian situation, making persons with disabilities at greater risk of exclusion and marginalization.
A growing momentum towards disability inclusion has been observed since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, framing a rights-based approach to disability. Awareness and policy developments have led to more concrete changes and commitments on disability inclusion, including the World Humanitarian Summit (2016) with the launch of the Charter on the Inclusion of Persons with D
WHS Five Years on National and local actors: Voices in the Humanitarian Wilderness?
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The May 2016 World Humanitarian Summit brought together 9,000 participants. They came from 180 Member States, included 55 Heads of State and Government, 700 NGOs and CSOs, of which 350 national and local ones, and 250 international ones, 350 representatives of the private sector, 130 representatives of the UN agencies, funds and programmes and other stakeholders including academia, faith-based leaders, and media. It was a culmination of an almost a two-years long multi-stakeholder process, costing millions of dollars.
Many more local and national CSOs took part in the regional consultations process, prior to the Summit. Globally, the largest number of organisations engaged in humanitarian action, development, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction and climate change are national and local organisations. They engage on issues like gender-based violence, gender equity, education, protection, e
In this blog, Pamela Hajal argues that humanitarian organisations and interventions need to take a “localisation” approach to ensure appropriate cultural integration in their programmes and improve their effectiveness and sustainability.