Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Coordination – Toolkit – Section 1 – Setting Up a New Working Group

Here you will find everything you need to help set up and run a disability working group, along with examples from other contexts. You may download and adapt as needed.

1. Guidance Brief

This guidance brief will provide a description on possible starting points to set up a working group, how to maintain its functioning, and how to close it if necessary.

2. Self-Assessments for Working groups, Clusters, and HNRP

The self-assessment can be used to generate an overview on the level of alignment of clusters, working groups, and the HNRP to the IASC guidelines. It can also support a participatory approach to annual action planning.

3. Tip sheet – Developing a ToR for Disability Working Groups

This tip sheet will provide guidance on how to develop a Terms of Reference for Disability Working Groups or similar structures. You can find examples of ToRs, a sample job description of a working Group Coordinator, and a sample Theory of Change:

4. Tip sheet – Promoting Meaningful Participation

Provides working group leads with guidance to enhance meaningful participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in humanitarian coordination.

5. Tip sheet – Supporting Action Planning

Provides key actions in link with key stages in the HPC to ease planning.

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