Can Policy-Focused PRAs be Participatory? Recent Policy-Focused Research on Violence and Poverty in Jamaica Using PRA Methods
1996
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Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Relief Efforts
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2014
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 15 per cent of the world’s population, or one billion people, have some form of disability. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 80 per cent live in poor countries, where communities are already more vulnerable to disasters and crises such as Ebola epidemics, with people with disabilities often disproportionately affected.
This Paper explores the needs and rights of people with disabilities and the importance of including them in disaster risk reduction and emergency responses. It shows how accelerating progress will require inclusive humanitarian programming and the use of technological solutions to be effectively promoted and incentivised, and that people with disabilities and their organisations need to be involved from the outset in the design and implementation of policies and programmes.
War Zones: a participatory study of urban poverty and violence in Jamaica
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1995
WASH and Older People
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2022
Abstract
Today, people worldwide can expect to live into their 60s and beyond.
There are estimated to be around 900 million older adults (aged 60 years and above), around 13 per cent of the world population.
The COVID-19 pandemic helped shed light on the specific needs of older people as a group more susceptible to severe disease/infection, and revealed the lack of capacity within water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) NGOs to respond to these specific needs.
This Sanitation Learning Hub Learning Paper explores the WASH needs of older people in both development and humanitarian contexts, as well as the fundamental role older people play in facilitating other people’s WASH access, health, and wellbeing.
The paper refers to the data WASH actors collect on older people in order to understand their differing WASH needs, the barriers to accessing WASH, and the need to ensure older people’s participation, including their active role in helping find the solutions.
Recommendations are made for planning with communities and programme design; WASH programme implementation and to reduce environmental barriers.
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