Humanitarian Action

In any situation of crisis or conflict, persons with disabilities face disproportionate risk of abandonment, violence, death, and a lack of access to safety, relief, and recovery support. Crucial information on safety and evacuation is often inaccessible, and evacuation centres themselves are also rarely accessible, meaning that persons with disabilities are too often left behind.

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Our achievements

Bridging the Gaps – four studies on Ukrainian children with disabilities (Dec 2022)
Disability-Inclusive Cash Feasibility Assessment Report (August 2022)
Technical brief – Key Principles and Recommendations for Inclusive Cash and Voucher Assistance in Ukraine (June 2022)
Policy Paper – Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: moving forward across Europe and Central Asia (December 2021)
Policy Brief – Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: moving forward across Europe and Central Asia (December 2021)
Review of Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Policy and Practice in Europe and Central Asia (December 2021)
Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction – Reference guide for practitioners in Europe and Central Asia (December 2021)
How to include organisations of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action using IASC Guidelines (Video) (November 2021)
EDF position paper EU global role in COVID 19 response and impact on lives of persons with disabilities (April 2021)
“Impact of COVID-19 on the lives of people with disabilities” – Insight and stories from Bangladesh and Kenya (October 2020)

Other resources in inclusive emergency response

Check out our dedicated page with guidelines and best practices for disability-inclusive emergency response.

Humanitarian Response Projects

Empower Ukraine

Empower Ukraine is a project working towards the better inclusion of at-risk internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, veterans, older people, single-headed households, adults and children in institutions, and members of host communities with and without disabilities in specifically six oblasts (regions) in Ukraine.

Ukraine war: OPD led disability inclusive response and recovery (Phase 2)

This project - funded by CBM - aims to ensure persons with disabilities and their representative organisations (OPDs) are included in the response and recovery of the Ukrainian crisis

Ukraine war: OPD led disability inclusive response and recovery (Phase 1)

This one year project - funded by CBM - aims to provide support to persons with disabilities in Ukraine and in neighboring and nearby countries who have been impacted by the Ukraine war