Advocacy in Inclusive Humanitarian Action

Disability Advocacy and Activism in humanitarian action is both a voice and a mechanism steering disability-informed and disability-mainstreamed development agendas, legislative and regulatory processes, tools, and innovations to consider political, economic, social, and cultural processes that can propagate equitable, inclusionary, and spatially efficient forms of normativity that leave no one behind. The Disability Advocacy and Activism movement leverages from, and partners with, individual actors and the groups they represent, multilateral agencies, governments, and civil society, among other key stakeholders and actors, in progressing the policies, practices, and recommendations set out by international treaties and federal and local legislation, policies, and practices. The ultimate aim is to ensure the Triple Nexus or the Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) NexusHumanitarian Development Peace (HDP) Nexus (International Organization for Migration (IOM), Operationalizing the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus: Lessons Learned from Colombia, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia and Turkey. (2019). https://publications.iom.int/fr/system/files/pdf/operationalizing_hdpn.pdf ) is disability-inclusive and actioned in a way that is proportionately universal, resourcing and delivering of universal services at a scale and intensity proportionate to the degree of need. Proportionate universalism recognizes that universal responses are needed to trigger social and environmental investment and legislative and behavioral changes to reduce the impact of present and future shocks and increase society’s resilience, highlighting the needs of those who are perpetually marginalized. Central to this movement is a focus on rights, equity, and inclusion, particularly when concerning persons with disabilities and older persons, as well as, displaced populations include refugees. The latter group is at an increased risk of experiencing further harm and marginalization as a result of multilayered barriers and compounded (often inadvertent) discriminatory and exclusionary emergency response mechanisms, human rights and protection systems, and humanitarian action.