Making Disability Visible During Humanitarian Crisis, Including Armed Conflict, Climate Change and Natural Disasters

The side event “Making Disability Visible During Humanitarian Crises, including armed conflict, climate change and Natural Disasters” aims to:

• Highlight the needs of persons with disabilities during humanitarian crises
• Raising awareness, identifying people with disabilities and assessing their needs 
• Encourage governments, humanitarian organization and stakeholders to adopt disability inclusive approaches in their humanitarian action plans
• Advocate for increased funding and policy changes that prioritize disability inclusive humanitarian response strategies
• Foster partnerships between international agencies, local organization and community led initiatives to address the Human Rights of people with disabilities
• Share lived experiences of persons with disabilities
• Present best practices from countries creating inclusive emergency plans
• Make visible the people with disabilities who cannot escape conflict zones
• Make the professionals who work in group living facilities (institutions) aware of their responsibilities and work with them to draw up plans to protect the people in their care