Based on its field experience working with disabled people and their representative organisations, as well as people most at risk, Handicap International advocates for inclusive community-based disaster risk management.
Handicap International has been working in the field of education since 1998, and prior to that, with development partners from 1989 to 1997. Handicap International’s actions in education have a specific focus on children with disabilities, who represent some of the most vulnerable and excluded young learners worldwide.
The Syrian crisis has generated the largest refugee movement since the Rwandan genocide and is described as the defining refugee crisis of our era. Within this refugee population older, disabled and injured refugees face specific challenges that contribute to their vulnerability.
The report highlights that advocacy with and by victims (survivors, family and community members of people injured or killed by cluster munitions) is not a straightforward process.