Walking the Talk on Participation in Disability and Older Age Inclusion in Humanitarian Action

This is a recording of the Humanitarian Xchange 2024 session: 'Walking the Talk on Participation in Disability and Older Age Inclusion in Humanitarian Action'. Autogenerated captions are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
The inaugural Humanitarian Xchange took place on 20 February 2024 online and at the Business Design Centre in London, UK. To find out more about HX24, visit www.humanitarianxchange.org
Session description:
This session builds on the increasing efforts within the humanitarian sector to ensure the active participation of men and women with disabilities and older men and women into shaping and designing inclusive humanitarian programme approaches.
Learning will be shared from Elrha’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund which supported a project with Tearfund in Ethiopia which has explored processes and tools to put meaningful participation into practice. People with disabilities and older people with others in their communities now use these innovative ways of working to build and strengthen their humanitarian work. We see the term ‘meaningful participation’ needs to be demystified and this session will give some useful guidance and showcase a model of good practice!
Please join us to see how we can all work together to continue to breakdown the multiple barriers in building inclusive approaches and how other diverse groups also marginalised in the humanitarian sector can also benefit from these approaches.
We would also like to hear your views!
Key messages:
• Inclusion is not a tick book - it requires investment
• Building on experiences of working with Organisations of Persons with disabilities and Associations of Older people opens new ways of working
• Meaningful participation is an ongoing journey and a quick fix
• Localisation must be inclusive and more needs to be done here