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Name, position and email of the focal person

Vittoria Moretti
Associate for Statutory Meetings, in charge of reporting for ICRC
vmoretti@icrc.org

1. To what extent has the Strategic Framework on Disability Inclusion supported the work of your organisation related to Disability Inclusion?
To a large extent

2. Does your organisation know how many persons with disabilities work and volunteer there?
No

Staff and volunteers please share the approximate percentage

3. What percentage of your organisation’ main buildings are accessible to all persons with disabilities?
Less than 50%

4. Since December 2015, has your organisation made any adjustments to its HR processes to ensure it supports recruitment of persons with disabilities?
Yes

Please tell us which ones

The ICRC has formed a sub-group of the internal Working Group on Disability Inclusion specifically on employability, in order to formulate strategies to address potential security and access constraints present in its operational contexts, and a statement encouraging the application to the ICRC of persons with disabilities will be formed and added to the ICRC career site. Work is also currently underway to develop a new Global Framework on Diversity & Inclusion, which intends to support the recruitment of persons with disabilities and provide a disability inclusive working environment.

5. Does your organisation work in partnership with any PDOs or disability inclusion specialist organization?
Yes

Please tell us which ones

Amongst others, the ICRC Physical Rehabilitation Program works with the Colombian Red Cross, the International Disability Alliance (Iraq), and the Yemeni Rehabilitation Foundation. MoveAbility works with Action to the Community Development Centre, DPO, and CAN THO Association of People with Disabilities (Vietnam), la Féderation Togolaise des Association de Personnes Handicapées, FETAPH, IMKONYAT (Tajikistan) and the Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organizations (SHIVYAWATA).

6. Does your organisation systematically consider the specific needs and capabilities of persons with disabilities in the management of its programmes and services?
Yes - less than 50% of programs / services

Please tell us in which programs or services do so

In ICRC Protection and Assistance activities, efforts continue to be made to ensure particular attention is paid to the specific needs of persons with disabilities in programming – e.g. in activities pertaining to the Protection of the Civilian Population, considerations of the specific needs of persons with disabilities are currently being incorporated into guidance on addressing internal displacement, as well as sexual violence. As well as addressing these specific needs, Protection activities seek to ensure that persons with disabilities are identified and integrated into general assessments and the subsequent response.

In health services, health care needs are assessed by taking into account those who may not be able to reach health care as well as those who may experience specific vulnerabilities, such as e.g. persons with mental and physical disabilities. In e.g. health activities in the context of detention, the ICRC closely monitors barriers in accessing health services faced by persons with disabilities who are detained, and/or if they are at risk of experiencing discrimination on the basis of their disability

7. Does your organisation provide any of the following disability specific services:
support and assistance services, rehabilitation services, economic independence programmes, social, sport and cultural services

8. Does your organisation deliver any of the following disability prevention or early intervention programmes or services:
Mine Risk Education, other

Within Community Based Protection programmes, risk reduction interventions related to e.g. safe movement and safe behaviours are delivered

9. Does your organisation undertake public awareness activities to change perceptions on disability?
Yes

Through its activities in disability sports, the ICRC supports the social inclusion, and reduction of stigma, of persons with disabilities. Moreover, through its humanitarian diplomacy efforts the ICRC seeks to contribute to promoting contemporary understandings of disability.

10. Does your organisation deliver disability awareness training to staff and/or volunteers?
No

11. Does your organisation carry out any kind of influencing activities (humanitarian diplomacy, advocacy) with government or other organisations to promote the full inclusion of persons with disabilities?
Yes

The ICRC works with States and relevant organisations to promote the full inclusion of persons with disabilities. For example, the ICRC's Legal Division proactively engaged with States and OHCHR in the lead-up to and during negotiations on a resolution on the rights of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters, adopted in March 2016 by the UN Human Rights Council. The ICRC also contributed to the drafting of the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities for the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, endorsed by a number of States, UN agencies as well as by the Movement.

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