newly established Protection Division should be  responsible for the mainstreaming of protection, gender and disability in your programmes in an integrated fashion to strengthen  approach to protection in line with the new Medium Term Strategy (2016-21). As part of the efforts to mainstream disability, guidelines on disability inclusion have been developed, updating the previous Disability Toolkit developed in 2013, to create a consistent  understanding of disability in theory and in practice.

2. The first phase of roll-out of the guidelines is planned through workshops in  this year to field test the contents and receive comments from staff working on disability issues.

3. Following discussions and feedback from the workshops. The disability awareness sections of the guidelines will also be made available as a training module to support  staff engaged in raising awareness on disability as part of mainstreaming work.

4. This guidance note provides an overview of planning and implementing these workshops. While a standardised approach is proposed this can be adapted to the specific needs .

Objectives

5. The overall objective of the  disability workshops is to create a consistent understanding of disability in both conceptual and operational terms.

Specifically, the workshops will:

• Familiarise the participants with the international human rights framework on disability and key aspects of  Disability Policy;

• Establish a common understanding of disability particularly how disability arises from the interaction of barriers with persons with impairments;

• Elicit agreement on ‘person with disability’ for  services and data collection purposes;

• Provide an overview of disability mainstreaming, disability inclusive development and considerations in project/programme cycle management .

• Outline the importance of using appropriate language and terminology around disability(disability priorities for 2016) .