Project profile — Improving Access of Children with Disabilities to Education Services - Handicap International 2017

• West Bank Gaza (100.00%)

• Emergency Response: Material relief assistance and services (72010) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (principal objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

January 2017 - This project is part of the 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Projects under this appeal help to reduce the vulnerability of Palestinians, especially women and children, affected by the ongoing crisis. Of the 4.8 million people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, the United Nations estimates that approximately two million will need some form of humanitarian assistance in 2017. Palestinians endure high rates of poverty, unemployment, and food insecurity. Internal displacement and recurrent conflict have eroded coping mechanisms and necessitate a humanitarian response focused on protection. With Global Affairs Canada’s support, Handicap International Canada supports increased access to adapted and specialized education services and support for over 250 children with disabilities in Gaza. The project also trains teachers and other educational staff to improve their responses to children with disabilities’ learning needs, help families to support their children with disabilities, hold inclusion activities, such as summer camps, for children with disabilities and their peers, and raise awareness in the wider community about the rights of children with disabilities, in particular girls.

The expected results for this project include: (1) reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people, especially women and children; specifically, (2) increased access of girls and boys with disabilities to adapted specialized education services respecting minimum humanitarian standards; and (3) increased preparedness of education stakeholders (cluster members, community, educational staff, children at schools and peers) to respond to the educational needs of children with disabilities. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crisis or that are food insecure.

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• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities:
• Effective Humanitarian Gender-Based Violence Responses - UNFPA 2017
• Humanitarian Response in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and Food Security - ACF 2017
• Humanitarian Support to Vulnerable Farmers, Fisherfolk, and Herders - Oxfam-Québec 2017
• Shelter Upgrades for Sub-Standard Housing in Gaza - Development and Peace 2017
• West Bank and Gaza - Food Assistance for Non-Refugee Palestinians - WFP 2017
• West Bank and Gaza - Strengthening Humanitarian Coordination - OCHA 2017