This document is a “learning brief.”

A learning brief is a document that talks about what we learned by doing a project.

This learning brief is about what we learned listening to adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities who are living in crisis situations in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.

This was part of a project called “Inclusive and Accountable,” which was about understanding how to make humanitarian work more inclusive.

Inclusion International worked with the International Rescue Committee and our members FENAID in Ethiopia and APEE in Burkina Faso on this project.

The learning brief includes:

  • Information about the focus group discussions we did with girls with intellectual disabilities in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. They told us about their experiences living in a crisis, and what is difficult about getting aid from humanitarian organisations.
  • Recommendations for humanitarian organisations on how to better include girls and women with intellectual disabilities trying to access support in a crisis.
  • Information about how organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and humanitarian organisations can work together.

This resource provides important information and guidance for humanitarian organisations that want to include girls with intellectual disabilities better.

This brief is also available in French.

Download the learning brief in English here:

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