Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children held a conceptualization session bringing together organizations from the Food Security Sector to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian and development planning.
The session was led by persons with disabilities, who facilitated and guided the discussion, ensuring that their voices and perspectives shaped the dialogue from the outset. Participants explored the current gaps in accessibility and participation within food security programs and developed practical recommendations to strengthen inclusion across all levels of intervention.
The session represents a step forward in advancing inclusive humanitarian and development approaches in Gaza ; key recommendations to ensure food security interventions are inclusive, equitable, and rights-based include:
- Ensuring the active participation of persons with disabilities in all sector meetings, projects, and planning processes.
- Engaging individuals with different types of disabilities in designing services to make them more accessible and responsive.
- Conducting awareness sessions to promote understanding of disability inclusion within the sector.
- Developing training materials for frontline workers on the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities.
- Integrating persons with disabilities into economic empowerment interventions within the food security sector.
- By centering the leadership of persons with disabilities, the session reinforces the principle that inclusion must be embedded at every stage, from planning and design to implementation and evaluation.
This activity is part of the project “Enabling a disability-inclusive and equitable international response in Gaza”, that is being implemented by Atfaluna Society in partnership with UN Women and with the generous funding of the GDF.
