The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia and the Pacific Regional Office is committed to making sure that all efforts to address gender-based violence (GBV) are inclusive of and accessible to women and girls with disabilities, ensuring that transformative goals are met and that no one is left behind. To meet this critical need, UNFPA APRO developed tools for UNFPA Country Offices and partners to strengthen GBV and Disability inclusion programming, which include a Tip-sheet on Disability Inclusion in GBV Programming and a GBV and Disability Inclusion Assessment Tool.
The lessons learnt from the implementation of the UNFPA APRO tools informed this documentation on promising practices and innovative approaches to disability inclusion in GBV programming adopted by UNFPA Country Offices and their partners in the Asia-Pacific region. The promising practices and approaches highlight the power of partnerships between UNFPA, GBV service providers and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities not only in addressing the needs of survivors with disabilities, but for knowledge exchange, mentoring and joint advocacy. However, there is still a critical gap in the evidence on effective approaches and interventions to ensure sustainable changes in the knowledge, attitudes and practices of service providers. Gathering more information about this is critical to identifying what disability-inclusive approaches and strategies work, where they work and why.
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| Disability Inclusion in GBV Programming | GBV and Disability Inclusion Assessment Tool |
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