Translating Disability Inclusion into the Humanitarian System
摘要
This chapter studies how the main international actors in the humanitarian system—donors, intergovernmental bodies, and humanitarian organizations—have translated disability inclusion into their policies. After a brief introduction, the second part investigates the policies of the main humanitarian donors. It shows that despite growing attention, donor governments vary considerably in their approaches to disability inclusion and need to improve their translation further. The third part studies translation at the interorganizational level. This part explores how humanitarian organizations work with the four “must-do” action: (1) promote meaningful participation of persons with disabilities, (2) address barriers, (3) exercise data collection and monitoring, and (4) engage in empowerment and capacity building. It reveals that humanitarian organizations only gradually adapt their practices and struggle with considering the diversity of the populations they seek to support. The fourth part of this chapter comparatively describes the measures that individual organizations have taken so far to translate disability inclusion. Finally, a comparative analysis reveals that most donor approaches are too abstract and general for implementation and that the humanitarian organizations need to develop their capacities for disability inclusion further.